Encountered same problem with wallet application sync.

According to log the problem is that peer list file is empty 0_o
Solution:
  1. Menu -> Help -> Debug Window.
  2. Select Console tab.
  3. Enter each line and press "Enter" (don't expect anything like "Command accepted" etc, console stays silent if this command is successful):
  List taken from this message (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=849994.msg25727244#msg25727244), thanx to LycheeBit. Btw, their pool works very well; personal stats jump like crazy, but the average hashrate is correct compared to miner results, - although workers disappear sometimes from the dashboard; dashboard real-time update would be great.

So  that worked for me, sync process started in few minutes.