Hello Edmund,

 EW> I've tried the following:

 EW> 1) sudo ./mystic -l
 EW>    Result: boots to prompt after ~4-5 minutes.

I never run ./mystic -l as root. I suspect this is where permissions errors 
come from.

You will likely need to chown the files in your mystic directory so they are 
owned by the user that owns ./mystic rather than root.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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