Well, running gksu id, does not crash the session.
I guess this issue involves Compiz, because after disabling it, Synaptic and  
update-manager run normally

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Update manager (and Synaptic too) crashes the entire session when trying to 
make updates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130850
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