Thanks for your bug report. This is expected behaviour as update-manager spawns instances of synaptic to carry out some tasks such as updating.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- [edgy] update-manager tells gksudo its name is the Synaptic Package Manager https://launchpad.net/bugs/59919 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs