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

[Tom Wood]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Ran "update-manager -d" on Jaunty box to get it to Karmic RC. update-manager froze, grayed out, and locked up X. Power cycled machine, cleaned up /etc/fstab (new version used UUIDs instead of /dev/sdax), remounted rw, fixed fstab back to original /dev entries, rebooted, ran "dpkg --configure -a", and got machine to boot properly.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 23 16:30:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release amd64 (20090420.1)
Package: update-manager 1:0.126.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager -d
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager', '-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 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

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