My composer won't update completely with Laravel 4 it gets stuck with artisan

Question

Here is the error I am getting:

Script php artisan optimize handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an error

[RuntimeException]  
Error Output:

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Answer 1

It looks like your laravel install did not run correctly and since part of the composer.json runs the php artisan clear-compiled and php artisan optimize if your laravel application is not working then composer will fail.

Try running your composer update without invoking the Laravel scripts.

php composer update --no-scripts

After that you can either run the commands from the scripts block in your composer.json manually. Else you can just run a standard

php composer update

again which will run the scripts for you.