I guess, this explains it all..

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Canonical ... untu-15-04

And i have been living under a rock for the last 3/4 of a year =_=! about this not so small matter.

I have managed to fix this mess. What was the problem? Apparently upstart isn't installed by default anymore OR i have deleted it which i would have known or i must have become blind. Very strange indeed. sudo apt install upstart upstart-sysv Because i already messed with deluge before i had this do...

I thought it worked already. Apologies, I'll take a look at it and update where necessary. Sadly, it does not. I have made my own version of the script, but just some settings are different such as adding extra -L info etc. and also the directory names. But despite not being that different from you...

Could you PLEASE update the article for Deluge Headless so it also can work on Ubuntu 16.04. I have been killing my self the WHOLE day not understanding what goes wrong. Then finally after MANY hours looking at different things, Deluge on 16.04 just ignores EVERYTHING i have said it should do. I was...