I am having the same problem here. It seems that Synaptic/UpdateManager resolves in this order: http_proxy(env) -> .synaptic/conf -> gconf It seems that gksu sets the incorrect http_proxy env variable and UpdateManager ends up using this. Even though gconf has the right configuration.
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