Thanks! I'll give the two proposed fixes a try, but I'd like to point out that the daemon works fine when started manually with a no-detach flag. The front-end needs better checks, too, to see if starting the daemon fails. Notifying users during the GUI "hang" would be expectable behavior ...

andar wrote:Do you have the rb_libtorrent package installed? If so, try removing it and re-emerging deluge.

I don't have net-libs/rb_libtorrent installed.

The checksumming section of Deluge definitely needs a revamp.
Last time I checked, when the effective user has no access to the file Deluge is trying to check, it just stays at 0% without any informational message. I assume ditto for all other problems.

Hello, Upon updating to my Gentoo's net-p2p/deluge-1.1.1, Deluge is unable to start the daemon. I'm testing with a clean ~/.config/deluge directory. $ deluge -L debug ... [INFO ] 20:34:24 connectionmanager:478 Starting localhost:58846 daemon.. Starting /usr/bin/deluged seems to fail silently---even ...