Deluge-console tries to login with empty user/password

[springjools]

Using deluge 1.3.15 for debian:

I log what username and password deluge is trying to authenticate with and it tries to use empty values. The auth file contains the correct credentials.

The error is in usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/core/authmanager.py", line 91, in authorize:

core:133 check interval loop starting
[WARNING ] 15:05:49 core:74 seedtime loop starting
[INFO    ] 15:05:52 rpcserver:206 Deluge Client connection made from: 127.0.0.1:50460
[ERROR   ] 15:05:52 authmanager:89 Username not found: u=,p=
[ERROR   ] 15:05:52 rpcserver:268 Username does not exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/core/rpcserver.py", line 262, in dispatch
    ret = component.get("AuthManager").authorize(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/core/authmanager.py", line 91, in authorize
    raise BadLoginError("Username does not exist")
BadLoginError: Username does not exist
[INFO    ] 15:05:52 rpcserver:226 Deluge client disconnected: Connection to the other side was lost in a non-clean fashion: Connection lost.

Also: it's not possible to openm github issues for this