Laravel/Symfony: unable to load the “app” configuration file

Question

After upgrading my Homestead and installing my packages I came across a strange bug. On calling php artisan the following was given as output:

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Answer 1

Try updating VirtualBox to v6. See this GitHub issue for more help.

Answer 2

I don't have an answer for why this happened, but I did code up an alternative to using Finder in the LoadConfiguration::getConfigurationFiles function (within \vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration.php) which allows me to run php artisan commands without any issues...

protected function getConfigurationFiles(Application $app)
{
    $files = [];

    $configPath = realpath($app->configPath());

    $file = new \DirectoryIterator($configPath);
    while($file->valid()) {
        if(!$file->isDot() && ($file->getExtension() == 'php')) {
            $directory = $this->getNestedDirectory($file, $configPath);
            $files[$directory.basename($file->getRealPath(), '.php')] = $file->getRealPath();
        }
        $file->next();
    }

    ksort($files, SORT_NATURAL);

    return $files;
}

Hope that helps someone.