Re: Can't start Tor under Debian

[Peter Palfrader <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Matthias Fischmann wrote:

> 
> > 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

Debian is not sloppy about removing directories.  My package does it
perfectly right.  Maybe you just need to learn how to use dpkg.

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