Thanks for your reply. I had tried it about 4 times. Then waited for an hour, and tried again after your reply. This time i did get past the MariaDB time out. Great!
However I get another error related to a timeout during Install PHP 7.0:
TASK [php : Install PHP 7.0] ***************************************************
System info:
Ansible 2.0.1.0; Darwin
Trellis 0.9.7: April 10th, 2016
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'/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef" -o "Dpkg::Options
::=--force-confold" --force-yes install 'php7.0-cli' 'php7.0-common'
'php7.0-curl' 'php7.0-dev' 'php7.0-fpm' 'php7.0-gd' 'php7.0-mbstring'
'php7.0-mcrypt' 'php7.0-mysql' 'php7.0-opcache' 'php7.0-xml' 'php7.0-xmlrpc'
'php7.0-zip'' failed: E: Failed to fetch
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php-defaults/php-
common_36+deb.sury.org~trusty+1_all.deb Could not connect to
ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.95.83), connection timed out
I looked around on Discourse and found this similar problem