SharePoint 2013 Install stuck

Depending upon performance of you system, it can take 15 minutes or more to create a new web app. You can watch progress somewhat. Using SQL Server Manager you can check to see if the database is created or not. In IIS manager you can see if the IIS web site and IIS web app (if creating a new one) have been created. You can also look in the file system in the inet folder to see if a folder has been created for the web app and if files are present.)

 It can nerve whacking!

It finally times out.  I will try creating the web app again and see what happens

Now I get this error


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This content database requires upgrade and could not be attached in this operation. Use either the [stsadm -o addcontentdb] command or [Mount-SPContentDatabase] cmdlet instead.

It might be best to delete the web app if possible from Central Administration and attempt to create new.

It was never created

If it was never created, then you should be able to create it new.

I just tried again and waiting to see if it gives me a problem.

It's still trying to create the application and it's been almost 40 minutes.  I even took a shower and I get the same image that I initially posted.

This is too long. You will need to troubleshoot logs, starting with event viewer.

That's what worked