Drush cim: error "Table xyz already exists" I'm trying to deploy a dev website to a dev server. When running drush cim on the dev server, drush ends with an error message: 


  Table honeypot_user already exists


When running drush cim again right after that, the same error comes up again for a while with different table-names. The database does definitely not have these tables before running the config import.

What's the underlying problem and how can I solve that?

Using drush 8.1.17 on a Drupal 8.3.7 (both running offline and soon to be updated for security patches)
Like event said, and In my case, this was solved when the drush cr command is entered before drush cim