You wrote (in your message from Thursday 27)
 > 
 > to syslog and have rebooted. It still occurs. I've been trying to get
 > xconsole up and running and I get a message saying it cannot find
 > inspect.xpm, and also that xconsole cannot open the console. 

The first message is from you window manager that can't find the icon
it wants to use for xconsole. 
Then you need 'options UCONSOLE' in your kernel configuration to be
able to open /dev/console as a normal user. Don't make xconsole
setuid. 
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					Matthieu