> Since my initla email I have done "dpkg purge tor" followed by "apt- > get install tor" however the issue remains the same with error > messages identical to my first post. > > /var/lib/tor is not owned by this UID > > (113). You must fix this to proceed. > Couldn't access/create private data directory /var/lib/tor > Acting on config options left us in a broken state. Dying. debian tends to be a little sloppy about removing directories. as the error message is quite clear, why don't you simply $ chown 113:110 /var/lib/tor by hand? alternatively (if you don't like being expected to know unix spells of this kind), you can purge the package, check whether /var/lib/tor is still there, remove it ("rm -rf /var/lib/tor" or "rmdir /var/lib/tor"), and install the package once more. if you do a $ ls -l /var/lib/tor then and you don't find it's owned by user and group debian-tor, then you have probably found a bug. (what's does "grep tor /etc/{passwd,group}" show on your host, then?) cheers, matthias
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