trying to upgrade to fiesty beta from edgy

[Mikael Backman]

I run  gksudo -S update-manager -d
Nothing much happens The updatemanger starts but finds nothing to
update..  I get this output from the command:

No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-tnmHXt/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: (null)
cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo
cmd[1]: -H
cmd[2]: -S
cmd[3]: -p
cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS
cmd[5]: -u
cmd[6]: root
cmd[7]: --
cmd[8]: update-manager
buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS-
Yeah, we're in...
warning: could not initiate dbus
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-tnmHXt/.Xauthority
xauth_env: /home/mix/.Xauthority
dir: /tmp/libgksu-tnmHXt