On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 11:41:05AM -0400, Kenneth C. Schalk wrote: > After looking through logs for a while, I suspect that this error > message from the X server might be the best clue as to what's going > wrong: > > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) > > Another possible clue is this error message that precedes that: > > (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 6292 does not belong to > any known session
By any chance, is your user account defined in a network-based authentication database, like NIS or LDAP?