Deluge Daemon fails to start on Ubuntu 15 systemd error: code=exited, status=203/EXEC

Question

Trying to install deluge by following this guide on a new Ubuntu 15.10 VM. I have looked at the two most likely linked questions, but I can't discern an answer and the error message is different from the one I get.

When I run: -

systemctl start deluged
systemctl status deluged

I get: -

systemd[1]: deluged.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
systemd[1]: Stopped Deluge Bittorrent Client Daemon.
systemd[1]: deluged.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Deluge Bittorrent Client Daemon.
systemd[1]: deluged.service: Unit entered failed state.
systemd[1]: deluged.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.

Deluged web works fine, but I can't get this running at all. I've not fiddled with the config file at all, except to change the unet mask to something a little more permissive.

Any help gratefully received, thanks!

Solution

I had this on Debian today. Took me a while, but found that it was due to a broken Setuptools install in Python. Try:

        sudo pip install setuptools --upgrade
        wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | sudo python

Comments

[dacabdi]

I had the same problem until I took out the logging flag...

[James]

I ran into this as well, and turned out that I hadn't actually installed deluged! I had run apt-get install deluge, but I needed to also run apt-get install deluged

[Nick Peranzi]

Absolutely the right answer. Not only did this fix the start-limit issue, it also led me to discover solutions to fix other issues I was having post-Jessie upgrade by updating many python packages (stackoverflow.com/questions/2720014/…). Thanks!!

[Lets Script This]

Bizarrely Will, I just got notified of this, so I will spin back up the server in question and give your fix a go! Thanks for the help.