Yep me too, got the same error [:(] Did also "vi /etc/up2date/up2date_status", exited it, look again in the up2dat overview tab, loads and up2dates are downloaded and installed....
This is just a timing issue. As long as the up2date downloader has not yet connected to the up2date servers to ask for up2dates, there is just no data available which could be displayed there.
The downloader runs every 5 minutes (unless you disable automatic pattern fetch); you don't have to enable or configure anything to make that work.
