Vidalia can't start tor, complains of permission denied to ~/.vidalia/torrc
Started happening after update to Tor v0.2.3.17-beta -- see log entries below.
System: Ubuntu 11.10 amd64
Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Notice] Tor v0.2.3.17-beta (git-122aff63b4ef3ab7) running on Linux. Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Notice] This version is not a stable Tor release. Expect more bugs than usual. Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Warning] Could not open "/home/myname/.vidalia/torrc": Permission denied Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Warning] Unable to open configuration file "/home/myname/.vidalia/torrc".Jun 16 !17:24:37.602 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
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Username: akwala