Laravel Homestead hangs at SSH auth method: private key on mac

Question

I can\'t seem to get Homestead running. It hangs at SSH auth method: private key.

The Homestead VM starts. I can go to VirtualBox and open the terminal window and lo

Answer 1

I had to do a fsck. (disclaimer, I typed the commands from memory)

1. Open VirtualBox UI and enter the virtual machine.
2. If you see (initramfs), type exit
3. fsck /dev/mapper/vagrant-vg-root -y
4. reboot

Go back to your normal terminal and try a:

vagrant halt
vagrant up

For me, things were back to normal from here.