Comment 8 for bug 1313042

I 'bit the bullet' and decided to remove consolekit (console kit daemon) with the following warnings:

sudo aptitude remove consolekit
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  consolekit
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 473 kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cinnamon-session : Depends: consolekit but it is not going to be installed.
 lxsession-logout : Depends: consolekit but it is not going to be installed.
 libpolkit-qt-1-1 : Depends: consolekit but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1) cinnamon-session
2) libpolkit-qt-1-1
3) libqapt2-runtime
4) lxde
5) lxde-common
6) lxde-core
7) lxinput
8) lxsession
9) lxsession-logout

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  alien{u} cinnamon-session{a} consolekit debugedit{u} galculator{u} giblib1{u} leafpad{u} libpolkit-qt-1-1{a} libqapt2-runtime{a} librpmbuild3{u} librpmsign1{u}
  libxmmsclient-glib1{u} lxappearance{u} lxde{a} lxde-common{a} lxde-core{a} lxinput{a} lxmusic{u} lxrandr{u} lxsession{a} lxsession-edit{u} lxsession-logout{a}
  lxshortcut{u} menu-xdg{u} rpm{u} scrot{u} xarchiver{u} xmms2-core{u} xmms2-plugin-alsa{u} xmms2-plugin-id3v2{u} xmms2-plugin-mad{u} xmms2-plugin-vorbis{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 32 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 12.6 MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

My system now responds much much quicker, my syslog doesn't get filled with errmsgs every 15 seconds and I'm happy, although my method of removal was fairly destructive so I wouldn't recommend it ;-)

My ssh connections remotely now work at the expected speed and I can now log in to my box remotely from work in a couple of seconds, instead of 10 seconds plus.