I also have a precise ubuntu 64bit. On another machine with fresh install audacity starts ok. I also tried nightly build from ppa (2.0.0+svn20120501+r7154-0~r12~precise1) and got the same crash. Running as roo does not make a difference. Hope this can help tracking down what happens.
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