every artisan command gives me a "[RuntimeException] Directory name must not be empty."

[mubassirhayat]

• Laravel Version: 5.4.36
• PHP Version: 5.6.25, 5.6.31
• Database Driver & Version: Mysql

Description:

I updated my dependencies yesterday and since then I have been getting

[RuntimeException]
  Directory name must not be empty.

on my local dev system

What is more concerning is that I am getting a totally different type of error on my testing server here is the output that I get whenever I run an artisan command on the server

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'UnexpectedValueException' with message 'There is no existing directory at "/storage/logs" and its not buildable: Permission denied' in /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php:171
Stack trace:
#0 /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php(97): Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler->createDir()
#1 /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/AbstractProcessingHandler.php(37): Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler->write(Array)
#2 /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(337): Monolog\Handler\AbstractProcessingHandler->handle(Array)
#3 /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(616): Monolog\Logger->addRecord(400, Object(InvalidArgumentException), Array)
#4 /home/techeasesol/public_html/st in /home/techeasesol/public_html/staging/whereyou/WhereYou/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php on line 171

here is my composer.json file

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.6.4",
        "atayahmet/laravel-nestable": "^0.8.1",
        "davibennun/laravel-push-notification": "dev-laravel5",
        "doctrine/dbal": "v2.5.13",
        "laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
        "laravel/tinker": "~1.0",
        "laravelcollective/html": "^5.4.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "^2.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.7"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "ConnectABoss\\": "app/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Tests\\": "tests/"
        }
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true,
        "optimize-autoloader": true
    }
}

Steps To Reproduce:

There are no steps, the artisan command line tool gives me errors on each and every command

PS Thanks for all the work you have done for the community.

[jmarcher]

Have you tried to do what the error says? Create a "logs" folder inside storage

[mubassirhayat]

yes I have created the logs folder and the laravel.log file as well

[mubassirhayat]

the owner of the file is apache user and the write access is 755

[themsaid]

Please ask on the forums, this repo is for bug reporting only. You can use https://laracasts.com/discuss or https://laravel.io/forum which are forums with a very large community of developers helping each other.