I was trying to start up my vagrant machine, so I navigated to the folder where my vagrantfile is, and used:
vagrant up && vagrant ssh
but I got the
I ran into the same issue, but in my case it was because I had ran vagrant up under sudo, and when I came back to it later I'd forgotten.
vagrant up
sudo
Silly mistake, but I'm sure it's not the first time it's happened someone :)