Can't start Tor under Debian

[Seehow Youare <seehowyouare@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

Installed Tor 0.9.6 onto Debian testing and can't get Tor to run.

I followed the thread below as it had exactly the same problem as 
myself (can't start Tor) but it never came to a successful conclusion 
and it seems contradictory to uninformed me. Eg: /etc/init.d/tor (as 
root) is the proper way to start it.

Why create a user called debian-tor if root is supposed to start Tor 
?

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2004/msg00059.html

root@storage:/etc/init.d# apt-get install tor
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  mixmaster mixminion anon-proxy
Recommended packages:
  privoxy socat
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tor
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 314 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/680kB of archives.
After unpacking 1593kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package tor.
(Reading database ... 149528 files and directories currently 
installed.)
Unpacking tor (from .../tor_0.0.9.6-0.woody.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tor (0.0.9.6-0.woody.1) ...
debian-tor uid check: ok
debian-tor homedir check: ok

root@storage:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/tor start
Starting tor daemon: tor...
Mar 29 17:46:09.921 [notice] tor_init(): Tor v0.0.9.6. This is 
experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
Mar 29 17:46:09.923 [warn] /var/lib/tor is not owned by this UID 
(113). You must fix this to proceed.
Mar 29 17:46:09.923 [err] options_act(): Couldn't access/create 
private data directory /var/lib/tor
Mar 29 17:46:09.923 [err] init_from_config(): Acting on config 
options left us in a broken state. Dying.

root@storage:/etc/init.d# ps auxw|grep tor

No process named tor is found (apart from the grep of course)

root@storage:/etc/init.d# cat /var/log/tor/log
cat: /var/log/tor/log: No such file or directory

root@storage:/etc/init.d# socksify lynx www.noreply.org

This connects but displays my IP address in the EHLO and that means 
Tor isn't running.

FYI - I have tested Tor on a Windows box here and it's fine.

Is there a wiki we can add this information to for Debian users ?

TIA