Not sure what the deal was but ended up building from source and all is good now.

Attached is contents of: /home/user/.config/deluge

I have tried both running it as a user with a home directory and as root. Same errors for both.

Any other ideas?

Hello, Deluge 1.3.3-2 off unstable on Debian Squeeze When I try to start the deluge daemon from the webui this shows up in screen: ###@###:~$ screen deluge-web File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/ui/web/json_api.py", line 219, in _handle_request result = self._exec_local(method, ...