I started watching the core.conf and auth files while starting and stopping the daemon. Seems there was a core.conf and auth file in ~/.config/deluge that were over writing the same in var/lib/deluge/.config/deluge. Deleted those, and everything runs perfect! Most likely this <-- Noob's fault, so so...

Yeah, thats not really my problem though...just something I noticed while trying to figure it out. I have no problems starting the deamon: nihil@nihilist:~$ systemctl status deluged ● deluged.service - Deluge Bittorrent Client Daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/deluged.service; enabled; vend...

Has anyone gotten deluge daemon to work in 16.04? I've followed your (Deluge's) guide and tried to piece together numerous guides, forum posts, etc. to get it to work. Still nada. I end up with directories owned by "debian-deluge", config files in obscure places, and I can't seem to sort i...