>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com> writes:
    Rick> My temporary fix, as root, was to chown the console to
    Rick> myself.
  
  This is the right fix.

latour# cat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
#!/bin/sh
# Assign ownership of the console to the invoking user
# $XConsortium: GiveConsole,v 1.2 93/09/28 14:29:20 gildea Exp $
#
# By convention, both xconsole and xterm -C check that the
# console is owned by the invoking user and is readable before attaching
# the console output.  This way a random user can invoke xterm -C without
# causing serious grief.
#
chown $USER /dev/console