There are numerous more or less useful installation directions circulating in the internet. It is really not obvious how you have installed your Odoo instance.
Why do you want to execute Odoo with the -i base parameter, if you have already installed Odoo? Why do you want to execute odoo-bin with the -i parameter at all? And how should an installation of modules be possible, if you have not provided any addons path?
After installation, you usually start Odoo with the parameters for the addons path(s), the log parameter and the odoo.conf file, if any. Of course you have to implement all requisites for log handling and addon paths etc. manually when creating a source install. As described in the installation documentation, you can then access Odoo in the browser with localhost:8069 and create a new database.
If you can't make a source install work, as it seems, I recommend you to use the package installer until you have acquired sufficient knowledge to understand how a source installation works. After successful installation using the package installer, you can simply start the Odoo service with:
$ sudo service odoo start
and you are done. Default log handling and addons path are set in the default odoo.conf file and can be amended at your discretion later.
So you may now understand that we can not provide help based on the preliminaries you have provided.
go to your log and read it for any error.
then inspect your browser and look if there is any error in console.
Thanks for your answer. Strangely, there doesn't appear to be a log! There's no /var/log/odoo directory at all. There's also no odoo-server.conf file in my Odoo installation, which is where I'd expect to set the log location. (Should there be?)
Also, there's no error in the browser's console because the browser never reaches the server.
Additional info: The startup process now goes one step further, ending on:
Please follow the offjcial Odoo installation documentation.
Obviously, I did already "follow the offjcial Odoo installation documentation." Dozens of times, with and without variations. Specifically, installing from source into Linux.
@Ermin, you closed this question and said there was "not enough information". Please be specific.
Ermin, your statement below ("if you follow standard procedures...") is neither relevant nor helpful.
There may be an issue with the official "install from source" installation instructions. Or I might have missed something. Or this might be an edge case that others might encounter.
I've solved my own problem already (by working with installations from package and via Docker). I'm willing to keep working on this issue, though, to help the people who follow. That's what open-source is about.
Your vague, foolishly certain "You must have done something wrong" doesn't help anybody.
May I remind you that I spent quite some time trying to help you despite the lack of any reasonable context information. And there is no issue with the installation from source. I tried to get you on track, there is no more I can do.