Had the same problem here with Nicotine under Karmic.
Problems were solved after installing geoip-database package:
- sudo apt-get install geoip-database
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[karmic] Nicotine fails to start due to GeoIP error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459697
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[karmic] Nicotine fails to start due to GeoIP error
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459697