Error in "Easy Installation" (Never faced before)

Install / Update
1

Dear All,

I’ve installed Frappe/ERPNext in fresh server before (Successfully, several times). I do some experiments. So, I’ve tried to install in again last night and got this error message twice. The server was fresh.

Thanks in advance!

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“bench”, “new-site”, “site1.local”, “–admin-password”, “something”, “–mariadb-root-password”, “something”], “delta”: “0:00:01.583183”, “end”: “2018-01-10 05:37:45.063739”, “failed”: true, “rc”: 1, “start”: “2018-01-10 05:37:43.480556”, “stderr”: “ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)”, “stderr_lines”: [“ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)”], “stdout”: “Database not installed, this can due to lack of permission, or that the database name exists.\nCheck your mysql root password, or use --force to reinstall”, “stdout_lines”: [“Database not installed, this can due to lack of permission, or that the database name exists.”, “Check your mysql root password, or use --force to reinstall”]}
to retry, use: --limit @/tmp/.bench/playbooks/production/install.retry

P.S: What should be my command line for retry as mentioned here? Forgive my ignorance.
“” to retry, use: --limit @/tmp/.bench/playbooks/production/install.retry""

2

I’ve been facing the same issue. Look like the problem happened to MariaDB. Checked, The database server is working fine and the password as well. Hoping someone will look into this.

3

Could be due to database being already present.
Notice the error:

Database not installed, this can due to lack of permission, or that the database name exists

Connect to mysql and drop the frappe database.

mysql (mariadb) commands:

SHOW DATABASES;

should output smth like this:

+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| 23jh4g234jhg2434   |
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
+--------------------+

23jh4g234jhg2434 - database id.

DROP DATABASE 23jh4g234jhg2434;

And then run install.

4

The ansible scripts look for the specific lock file location so if you have modified the my.cnf file to point the lock file to another location it will fail.

5

Thanks; but no DB was there. Anyway this helped.