systemd action 9 suspended

getting systemd action 9 suspended.

Hint here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/108924/missing-dev-xconsole-causes-rsyslog-to-stop-as-well-as-all-other-services

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/168215/create-several-dev-xconsole-files-automatically-upon-boot

https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/T806
"Root cause: rsyslog was trying to use xconsole, a program not installed, to send some logs to."

seems to have vanished after installing xterm, though not clear why.

/etc/init.d/rsyslogd has code to create /dev/xconsole (which is supposedly the problem it's missing) by linking /run/xconsole to /dev/xconsole.

After installing xterm they are both still missing.

Note: this system is a server configured system with xfce4 xrdp and tightvnc installed to give remote access.  Suggestion that xterm was missing is in other online hints.