Created Issue: Deployment stalls "Creating Metadata Service Application..." [19457]

I have been building out an all-on-one-machine 2013 farm (DNS, AD, SQL 2012, SP 2013). My procedure is to make a little progress and take a VMWare snapshot. I got my system to the point where I could use ASPI v3.2 to complete the basic SP 2013 install. Then I ran into a scenario that I have reproduced twice.

The difference between my successful attempts and the failed attempts was installing the SP2013 pre-requisite EXEs but having ASPI install the hotfix patches. I was able to get around this by rolling back to my previous snapshot (without pre-requisites at all) and having ASPI complete all the prerequisite installs (much slower of course).

The script finally stalls with the following:

- Provisioning Managed Metadata Service Application
- Creating SharePoint Hosted Services Application Pool...
- Starting Managed Metadata Service:
- Starting Metadata Service Instance...
- Waiting for Metadata service...Online
- Creating Metadata Service Application...

The section of the install that deals with pre-requisites looks like this:

- Installing Prerequisite Software:
- Running Prerequisite Installer (online mode)........Done.
- Prerequisite Installer completed in 00:00:25.
- SharePoint 2013 "missing hotfix" prerequisites...
- Checking for KB2554876...Already installed.
- Checking for KB2708075...Already installed.
- Checking for KB2472264...Already installed.
- All Prerequisite Software installed successfully.

I know using ASPI for SP2013 is beta - but I thought I would raise the awareness of the behaviour.

@SPSavvy