I experienced this exact "Retrying" choke to my account where Gmail kept retrying an action and I kept rushing it by continually pressing my Inbox link. Funny to see others experienced this.
Back on the 5th when this happened, I read in the Gmail Help that they disable accounts for unusual activity, and my guess is this continual retrying caused some sort of system flag on my account.
Despite being pissed I simply waited for my account to check-out as clear and it was unlocked the day after (the 6th). Looks like Gmail overall had a system-wide failure that caused these lockouts.
Back on the 5th when this happened, I read in the Gmail Help that they disable accounts for unusual activity, and my guess is this continual retrying caused some sort of system flag on my account.
Despite being pissed I simply waited for my account to check-out as clear and it was unlocked the day after (the 6th). Looks like Gmail overall had a system-wide failure that caused these lockouts.