Comment 34 for bug 1197395

After updated to ubuntu 13.10 I also have this issue. The permission of the directory (/var/run/user/1000/pulse) was changed to root, every time I run synaptic, from the gnome-flashback menu in the panel.

From the menu synaptic is invoked by pkexec. I tried gksudo synaptic then no such problem, i.e. the directory remians owned by myslef. I think it may be a problem caused by pkexec