It looks like the issue was caused by my older version of PHP 5.3.3 and Laravel 4.1.24. I just changed my version to 4.1.23 in the composer.json file and it fixed the issue.
Any ideas how to fix this going forward, please let me know.
I had the same problem with Laravel 4.1.24 and PHP 5.3.10. Rolled back to 4.1.23 and the error message disapeared.
You weren't on .24, but the latest commit on the 4.1 branch.
Change minimum-stability to stable in composer.json and change the version back to 4.1.* and it should work fine.
@jveldboom This has now been fixed in the 4.1 branch.
If your minimum-stability is still set to dev, just run composer update.
FYI, I've just gone through this very same error.
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