At this point I'm still seeing this issue. This is on a remote vnc session so the terminal is 1. Using xfce4 as the window manager of choice.
shinji@icarus:/usr/share/polkit-1/actions$ apt-cache policy synaptic synaptic: Installed: 0.75.2ubuntu8 Candidate: 0.75.2ubuntu8 Version table: *** 0.75.2ubuntu8 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status shinji@icarus:/usr/share/polkit-1/actions$ synaptic-pkexec Client is not authorized to connect to ServerClient is not authorized to connect to ServerClient is not authorized to connect to ServerClient is not authorized to connect to Server (synaptic:13837): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0 shinji@icarus:/usr/share/polkit-1/actions$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827878 Title: Synaptic can no longer be started from the menu: cannot run "synaptic- pkexec" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/827878/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs