Brand new Debian 9 install using auto installer script taking a huge amount of time to get to login

I have just run a brand new debian 9 ISPConfig auto installer
IT is taking a huge amount of time to get to login screen, and then comes back with a wrong password after another huge amount of time when i try to login.

i have other servers that are with the same provider that i can run alongside this in my browser and they login fast.

Something seriously wrong with this automated install...any ideas? (i have ssh access)

>> Initial configuration

Operating System: Debian 9.0 (Stretch) or compatible

Following will be a few questions for primary configuration so be careful.
Default values are in [brackets] and can be accepted with <ENTER>.
Tap in "quit" (without the quotes) to stop the installer.
Configuring Postgrey
Configuring Postfix
Generating a RSA private key
.......................................................++++
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writing new private key to 'smtpd.key'
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Configuring Dovecot
Configuring Spamassassin
Configuring Amavisd
Configuring Getmail
Configuring Jailkit
Configuring Pureftpd
Configuring BIND
Configuring Apache
Configuring vlogger
Configuring Ubuntu Firewall
Configuring Fail2ban
Configuring Apps vhost
Installing ISPConfig




Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus
....++++
.............++++
e is 65537 (0x010001)
writing RSA key


Configuring DBServer
Installing ISPConfig crontab
Installing ISPConfig crontab
no crontab for root
no crontab for getmail
Detect IP addresses
Restarting services ...
Job for amavis.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status amavis.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Installation completed.
Restarting Apache... Restarting apache2 (via systemctl): apache2.service.
[DONE]

Restarting Amavisd... [DONE]

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")

Well done! ISPConfig installed and configured correctly

Now you can access to your ISPConfig installation at: https://server3.domain.com:8080 or https://4paddress:8080
The default ISPConfig Username is: admin
and the Password is: admin
Warning: This is a security risk. Please change the default password after your first login.

You will need to edit the username and password in /var/lib/roundcube/plugins/ispconfig3_account/config/config.inc.php of the roundcube user, as the one you set in ISPconfig

You can visit the GitHub repository at: https://github.com/servisys/ispconfig_setup/

 

hmmm, thats strange...i performed a hard restart and its now working???

 

This error may have been the reason. Maybe mysql or mariadb was not running?
You could have checked with

Code:

systemctl --state=failed

if some services were not running.
Reboot often solves these services not running problems, unless there is a permanent reason the service can not start.

 

It's just surprising this required a hard reboot to correct a failed state straight after the installer process finished?

Do you think this could have been a low resource issue? (It's on a fresh 1cpu 1gb ram vps)

 

The installer itself should run fine with 1 GB RAM. I have not used the

myself, but reading this forum indicates that script may fail sometimes, but these failures are not reported to the user. So maybe something went wrong with the autoinstaller, causing database to not run properly.
Depending on what you run on that host 1 GB may or may not be sufficient. But with 2 or 3 GB swap, it should run just fine, that is no "out of memory" errors. When the system is running, you can monitor memory and swap use and other resource usage to determine if something is running out.