Bug#956926: twinkle-console: First launch fails

[onalyrg at rhizogen.es.eu.org]

Package: twinkle-console
Version: 1:1.10.1+dfsg-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

twinkle-console fails to launch with the following message:

Critical: Cannot open file for reading: /home/$USER/.twinkle/twinkle.cfg

Here is the content of /home/$USER/.twinkle :

drwx------ 2 $USER users 4096 Apr 16 21:05 tmp
-rw------- 1 $USER users    0 Apr 16 21:05 twinkle.lck
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER users  412 Apr 16 21:09 twinkle.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER users  412 Apr 16 21:05 twinkle.log.old

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages twinkle-console depends on:
ii  libasound2      1.1.8-1
ii  libc6           2.28-10
ii  libccrtp2v5     2.0.9-2.3
ii  libgcc1         1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgsm1         1.0.18-2
ii  libmagic1       1:5.35-4+deb10u1
ii  libreadline7    7.0-5
ii  libsndfile1     1.0.28-6
ii  libspeex1       1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libspeexdsp1    1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libstdc++6      8.3.0-6
ii  libucommon8     7.0.0-16
ii  libxml2         2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
ii  twinkle-common  1:1.10.1+dfsg-4

Versions of packages twinkle-console recommends:
pn  twinkle  <none>

twinkle-console suggests no packages.

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