Linux Mint Electrum 1.9.7 unable to boot - error message

[Nomopomo]

I'm running Linux Mint 15, and whenever I try and run Electrum (this is after a fresh install) I get:

$ electrum
Exception in thread Thread-5:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/interface.py", line 586, in run
    self.start_interface()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/interface.py", line 498, in start_interface
    self.start_tcp()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/interface.py", line 322, in start_tcp
    l = socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port, socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/electrum", line 176, in <module>
    gui.main(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/__init__.py", line 84, in main
    storage = WalletStorage(self.config)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 80, in __init__
    self.read(self.path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/wallet.py", line 121, in read
    raise IOError("Cannot read wallet file.")
IOError: Cannot read wallet file.

I've reinstalled many times, rebooted, etc. Don't know what the problem is.

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[Nomopomo]

Okay well I figured out that the problem was my wallet.dat file was corrupted. I deleted it and created a new one from the seed I have memorized.

If you don't have your seed memorized don't delete your wallet file. 

Hope this helps if you are having the same problem as me.