Laravel 5.8: A facade root has not been set after homestead restart

Question

so I\'m trying to get into Laravel and this is my first time using Vagrant, so here\'s my problem:

I\'ve worked through the Laravel Homestead introduction and set up

Answer 1

Upgrading VirtualBox to v6 from v5 fixed this issue for me. I'm on OSX 10.15 Catalina.

I didn't have to adjust the version of my homestead box after upgrading VirtualBox.

Upgrading was recommended as a fix from this github issue: https://github.com/laravel/homestead/issues/1178