I looked in the debug log. I think the error lies in here somewhere.
ERROR: CAddrman::Read() : open failed
Invalid or missing peers.dat; recreating
Loaded 0 addresses from peers.dat 0ms
...
connection timeout
IRC connect failed
IRC waiting 71 seconds to reconnect
connection timeout
...
Please advise.
Looks like your client isn't able to connect to the IRC server to pull the current nodes.