Cannot start deluged service (init.d)

Question

I installed deluge, deluged and deluge-console. All of them work fine and I can start the deluged daemon using this command

$ deluged

but I cannot start it using the init.d script that comes with it. Neither of these work:

$ sudo service deluged start
$ sudo /etc/init.d/deluged start

and if I check the status, it says active (exited). This worked without any issues on my previous laptop running ubuntu 14.04, but doesn't on my fresh 16.04 installation.

I've tried everything I could think of; tail logs (they're empty), change permissions and mask (didn't do anything), change auth settings - but it just doesn't start. I've been at this for over an hour, and any help would be highly appreciated. Installing a torrent-client shouldn't take this long.

Solution 1

Okay, so I got it working! I've been closely going over the /etc/init.d/deluged apparently the daemon mode of deluged is disabled by default (WTF deluge, what else is the point of installing a daemon) and you're supposed to enable it manually (they also forgot to mention this in the user guides).

Anyways, to enable it, open /etc/default/deluged in your favorite editor:

$ sudo vi /etc/default/deluged

and change ENABLE_DELUGED=0 to ENABLE_DELUGED=1

Solution 2

As explained on the Deluge Service wiki you should be using systemd with Ubuntu 16.04.

Most Linux distributions now use systemd. See ​wikipedia for releases with systemd as default.

systemd 

Upstart (Ubuntu 11.04 to 14.10) 

init.d (Obsolete)

The init script is provided by the Ubuntu package maintainers but the /etc/default/deluged file is mentioned in the init wiki...

Comments

[Sheharyar]

I like init.d more. And the init script in the wiki is very different than what comes pre-packaged with deluged.

[Carlo Wood]

I have the same symptoms, but already had ENABLE_DELUGED=1 ... No go.

[Admin]

it works like a charm!