Error code 255 on fresh install on TSOhost shared hosting

Hello I am installing a fresh copy of laravel on shared hosting (TSOhost, linux box) by SSH'ing in, installing composer (completed successfully) and then running composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist As can be seen below the laravel installation fails at php artisan optimise stage. no key is generated and the result is the error: Script php artisan optimize handling the post-update-cmd event returned with error code 255.

My composer version is up to date at 1.2.1. My php version is 5.6.22 (cli).

Any ideas on what I should look at?

bash-3.2$ composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.10)

• Installing laravel/laravel (v5.3.10) Loading from cache

Created project in /var/sites/k/loremipsum.co.uk/public_html/laravel php -r "file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');" Usage: php [-q] [-h] [-s] [-v] [-i] [-f ] php [args...] -a Run interactively -b <address:port>| Bind Path for external FASTCGI Server mode -C Do not chdir to the script's directory -c | Look for php.ini file in this directory -n No php.ini file will be used -d foo[=bar] Define INI entry foo with value 'bar' -e Generate extended information for debugger/profiler -f Parse . Implies `-q' -h This help -i PHP information -l Syntax check only (lint) -m Show compiled in modules -q Quiet-mode. Suppress HTTP Header output. -s Display colour syntax highlighted source. -v Version number -w Display source with stripped comments and whitespace. -z Load Zend extension . -T Measure execution time of script repeated times. Error in argument 1, char 2: option not found r Loading composer repositories with package information Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

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symfony/var-dumper suggests installing ext-symfony_debug () symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config () symfony/routing suggests installing doctrine/annotations (For using the annotation loader) symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/config (For using the all-in-one router or any loader) symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection (For loading routes from a service) symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using expression matching) symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection () symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/browser-kit () symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/class-loader () symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/config () symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection () paragonie/random_compat suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides a modern crypto API that can be used to generate random bytes.) ramsey/uuid suggests installing ircmaxell/random-lib (Provides RandomLib for use with the RandomLibAdapter) ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides the PECL libsodium extension for use with the SodiumRandomGenerator) ramsey/uuid suggests installing ext-uuid (Provides the PECL UUID extension for use with the PeclUuidTimeGenerator and PeclUuidRandomGenerator) ramsey/uuid suggests installing moontoast/math (Provides support for converting UUID to 128-bit integer (in string form).) ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-doctrine (Allows the use of Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid as Doctrine field type.) ramsey/uuid suggests installing ramsey/uuid-console (A console application for generating UUIDs with ramsey/uuid) psy/psysh suggests installing ext-pcntl (Enabling the PCNTL extension makes PsySH a lot happier :)) psy/psysh suggests installing ext-readline (Enables support for arrow-key history navigation, and showing and manipulating command history.) psy/psysh suggests installing ext-pdo-sqlite (The doc command requires SQLite to work.) monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB) monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server) monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required)) monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server) monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server) monolog/monolog suggests installing mongodb/mongodb (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server via PHP Driver) monolog/monolog suggests installing php-amqplib/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib) monolog/monolog suggests installing php-console/php-console (Allow sending log messages to Google Chrome) monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar) monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server) monolog/monolog suggests installing sentry/sentry (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v2) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v3) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-azure (Allows you to use Windows Azure Blob storage) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-cached-adapter (Flysystem adapter decorator for metadata caching) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-eventable-filesystem (Allows you to use EventableFilesystem) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-sftp (Allows you to use SFTP server storage via phpseclib) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-webdav (Allows you to use WebDAV storage) league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-ziparchive (Allows you to use ZipArchive adapter) laravel/framework suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Required to use the SQS queue driver and SES mail driver (~3.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Required to rename columns and drop SQLite columns (~2.4).) laravel/framework suggests installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (Required to use the Mailgun and Mandrill mail drivers and the ping methods on schedules (~5.3|~6.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Required to use the Flysystem S3 driver (~1.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Required to use the Flysystem Rackspace driver (~1.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing pda/pheanstalk (Required to use the beanstalk queue driver (~3.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing predis/predis (Required to use the redis cache and queue drivers (~1.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing pusher/pusher-php-server (Required to use the Pusher broadcast driver (~2.0).) laravel/framework suggests installing symfony/psr-http-message-bridge (Required to psr7 bridging features (0.2.).) sebastian/global-state suggests installing ext-uopz () phpunit/php-code-coverage suggests installing ext-xdebug (>=2.4.0) phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1) phpunit/phpunit suggests installing ext-xdebug (*) Writing lock file Generating autoload files

Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate php artisan optimize Content-type: text/html

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'class' (T_CLASS), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or '{' or '$' in /var/sites/k/loremipsum.co.uk/public_html/laravel/artisan on line 30 Script php artisan optimize handling the post-update-cmd event returned with error code 255