update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()

Binary package hint: update-manager

root@MainOffice:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
root@MainOffice:~#

Alpha 2 Lucid Lynx ix386.iso

When I open up another terminal with GDM running on [F7]
I get this crash.
I expect to be able to run this command and have it open the update manager GUI.

root@MainOffice:~# sudo update-manager -c -d

I does not run from the [F1] terminal if GDM is closed on it, instead gives me an error message, this happen on 5 different computers I have tried this on. I thing I have seen it work the way I expect in the past sometimes.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 26 20:52:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: update-manager 1:0.131.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined (enforce)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager -c -d
ProcCwd: /root
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-11.15-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-c', '-d']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with RuntimeError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 43, in <module>
     gtk.init_check()
 RuntimeError: could not open display
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic i686
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