<p>When launching Bisq on my Windows 10 VM, it dies several seconds later and doesn't get past this on the splash screen:<br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/603793/52500223-53a43200-2b92-11e9-8bf9-158e1b611974.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/603793/52500223-53a43200-2b92-11e9-8bf9-158e1b611974.png" alt="image" style="max-width:100%;"></a></p>
<p>In the log:<br>
<code>Feb-08 10:59:37.065 [NetworkNode-9999] ERROR b.n.p.n.TorNetworkNode: Could not connect to running Tor: java.io.IOException: Auth cookie not created</code></p>
<p>I am consistently encountering it on my VM, but not on my primary Windows 10 machine. I have investigated/eliminated possible causes such as firewall, antivirus, file permissions and as of yet been unable to determine the root cause.</p>
<p>I see it is creating an empty tor/.tor/control_auth_cookie file, but not writing to it. While looking at the netlayer module, it throws this exception if the file is not written to within 3 seconds.<br>
<a href="https://github.com/JesusMcCloud/netlayer/blob/master/tor.native/src/main/kotlin/org/berndpruenster/netlayer/tor/TorContext.kt#L346">https://github.com/JesusMcCloud/netlayer/blob/master/tor.native/src/main/kotlin/org/berndpruenster/netlayer/tor/TorContext.kt#L346</a></p>
<p>At this point the only thing I can think of is it perhaps could be a timing issue with my VM running slower than my primary machine and it taking longer than 3 seconds to write to this file. But I am not familiar with the netlayer module nor with tor in general.</p>

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