[Arch Linux] Install Wiki outdated or broken?

Following the install wiki ERPnext on ArchLinux I can’t get over the step

$ bench new-site site1.local

First I thought it is because I configured MySQL with Unix socket. But testing it with mysql -u root -p -h localhost for MariaDB user root everything works fine. I also switched to IP, the same. Manually, I can connect but the ERPnext script seems to fail:

$ bench new-site site1.local
MySQL root password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 583, in connect **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/socket.py", line 727, in create_connection raise err
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/socket.py", line 716, in create_connection sock.connect(sa) socket.timeout: timed out 
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", mod_spec)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/utils/bench_helper.py", line 97, in <module> main() 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/utils/bench_helper.py", line 18, in main click.Group(commands=commands)(prog_name='bench')
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx) 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/commands/site.py", line 33, in new_site db_type = db_type)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/commands/site.py", line 66, in _new_site source_sql=source_sql,force=force, reinstall=reinstall, db_type=db_type)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/installer.py", line 36, in install_db setup_database(force, source_sql, verbose) 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/__init__.py", line 16, in setup_database return frappe.database.mariadb.setup_db.setup_database(force, source_sql, verbose)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/mariadb/setup_db.py", line 13, in setup_database if force or (db_name not in dbman.get_database_list()): 
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/db_manager.py", line 58, in get_database_list return [d[0] for d in self.db.sql("SHOW DATABASES")]
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/database.py", line 121, in sql self.connect()
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/database.py", line 74, in connect self._conn = self.get_connection()
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/apps/frappe/frappe/database/mariadb/database.py", line 87, in get_connection local_infile = frappe.conf.local_infile)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymysql/__init__.py", line 94, in Connect return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 325, in __init__ self.connect()
File "/home/me/Downloads/frappe-bench/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 630, in connect raise exc 
pymysql.err.OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (timed out)")

Unfortunately, the Multi-tenant platform to install and manage Frappe / ERPNext script doesn’t work with ArchLinux, too.

Any ideas?

What happens if you try: bench mariadb
or mysql -u frappe -p (replace frappe with user you operate ERPNext as)

Well, is the script maybe missing the --protocol=TCP option maybe?

I found other related article?!

As the previous steps seem not create a mariadb user already the bench --site site1.local mariadb command results in RROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'frappe'@'localhost' (using password: YES), therefore, as expected the same for mysql -u frappe -p.