Sorry to necrobump, just wanted to say thanks for your response and help.
your edit of move.py solves the problem (more gracefully than my previous workaround of running the command inside of a bash timeout command)
And for filing an official bug report (as this appears to still be a bug as of 2.1.1)

hey thanks for response. I didn't realize I needed * to make matching work (and that it worked on names as well as ids), that's quite helpful. I can only seem to make matching work with single-word input. Is there a way to get it to work for phrases? eg: deluge-console info *deb* will work but delug...

I want to create a script that will execute 'deluge-console move' which requires a torrent-id and a path. How do I get the torrent ID of an arbitrary torrent? Do I need to do 'deluge-console info' and then parse the output for the torrent I'm looking for? Or is there an easier way to get the ID? Tha...

per this: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq ... enpassword
try stopping the webui service and deleting the pwd_sha1 line in the web.conf file. That should make deluge reset it to the default when the service starts up again.

Sounds like maybe you're using your Gtk client password in the WebUI?

The WebUI has it's own password (set to deluge by default, if I remember), port, and service.

The username/password pair is for logging into the Gtk client.

When I use the file is moved, but afterward the console hangs and doesn't return until I keyboard interrupt.

Anyone else experience this? Am I doing something wrong?

well done, thank you!

I think my problem was that I was editing core.conf directly while the daemon was running. I guess that's a no-no.

I ran deluge as a user process to generate a fresh config in my home directory, then copied ~/.config/deluge to /etc/deluge and everything seems to work again with the above caveat.

Tried the alternate systemd unit with same results as existing unit. Searched system for core.conf with and only found the one in /etc/deluge and the one in /root/.config/deluge/

/var/lib/deluge doesn't exist

I'm running deluge from a systemd unit file in /etc/systemd/system/: [Unit] Description=Deluge Daemon After=network.target [Service] User=deluge ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluged -d -c /etc/deluge UMask=0002 Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The contents of /etc/deluge are: -rw-rw-r-- 1 deluge deluge 73 ...