Comment 14 for bug 172487

and this from the /var/log/auth. log it has several references to synaptic
Nov 27 20:36:02 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/restricted-manager
Nov 27 20:36:39 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 20:37:42 pdleth-desktop gdm[5068]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session closed for user pdleth
Nov 27 20:38:59 pdleth-desktop gdm[5135]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user pdleth by (uid=0)
Nov 27 20:40:04 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 90177539 --update-at-startup
Nov 27 20:48:53 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive -o Synaptic::closeZvt=true --parent-window-id 90177539 --set-selections-file /tmp/tmpkujyRg
Nov 27 21:12:28 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:15:23 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[13876]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 27 21:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[13876]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 27 21:17:02 pdleth-desktop useradd[13885]: new user: name=sshd, UID=109, GID=65534, home=/var/run/sshd, shell=/usr/sbin/nologin
Nov 27 21:17:02 pdleth-desktop chage[13886]: changed password expiry for sshd
Nov 27 21:17:02 pdleth-desktop sshd[13918]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Nov 27 21:17:02 pdleth-desktop sshd[13918]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Nov 27 21:17:52 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:23:56 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:25:01 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:25:11 pdleth-desktop gdm[5135]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session closed for user pdleth
Nov 27 21:26:16 pdleth-desktop sshd[4807]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Nov 27 21:26:16 pdleth-desktop sshd[4807]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Nov 27 21:26:23 pdleth-desktop gdm[5145]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user pdleth by (uid=0)
Nov 27 21:27:13 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 21:29:04 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 22:14:22 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install yelp-dbgsym
Nov 27 22:14:55 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get update
Nov 27 22:15:59 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Nov 27 22:16:49 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get update
Nov 27 22:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[5855]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 27 22:17:02 pdleth-desktop CRON[5855]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 27 22:17:11 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install yelp-dbgsym
Nov 27 22:18:01 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install gdb
Nov 27 22:20:10 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Nov 27 22:20:43 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get update
Nov 27 22:20:52 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install libcnbj-2.5 bjfilter-2.5 pstocanonbj
Nov 27 22:22:07 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install gdb
Nov 27 23:03:14 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gdb synaptic
Nov 27 23:08:52 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 23:13:50 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gdb synaptic
Nov 27 23:16:13 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install gdb
Nov 27 23:16:58 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/pidof synaptic
Nov 27 23:17:02 pdleth-desktop CRON[6358]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 27 23:17:02 pdleth-desktop CRON[6358]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 27 23:20:27 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 23:20:52 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get synaptic
Nov 27 23:21:10 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 27 23:21:25 pdleth-desktop gdm[5145]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session closed for user pdleth
Nov 27 23:22:30 pdleth-desktop sshd[4808]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Nov 27 23:22:30 pdleth-desktop sshd[4808]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Nov 27 23:22:37 pdleth-desktop gdm[5140]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user pdleth by (uid=0)
Nov 27 23:56:01 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
Nov 28 00:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[6322]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 00:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[6322]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 00:19:15 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
Nov 28 00:36:43 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 00:37:40 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 81788931 --update-at-startup
Nov 28 00:49:21 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk
Nov 28 00:49:56 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 56623107 --update-at-startup
Nov 28 01:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7468]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 01:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7468]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 02:16:46 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get install yelp-dbgsym
Nov 28 02:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7669]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 02:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7669]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 02:28:47 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 03:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7826]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 03:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7826]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 04:02:37 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 04:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7924]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 04:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[7924]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 05:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[8178]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Nov 28 05:17:01 pdleth-desktop CRON[8178]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Nov 28 05:18:08 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 05:18:14 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 05:19:48 pdleth-desktop gdm[5140]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session closed for user pdleth
Nov 28 19:42:14 pdleth-desktop sshd[4825]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Nov 28 19:42:14 pdleth-desktop sshd[4825]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.
Nov 28 19:42:21 pdleth-desktop gdm[5176]: pam_unix(gdm-autologin:session): session opened for user pdleth by (uid=0)
Nov 28 19:50:30 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic
Nov 28 20:02:28 pdleth-desktop sudo: pdleth : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/pdleth ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/synaptic