* An ongoing debate between Maurice Kinal and Ben Ritchey rages on ...   
      
    MK> AH!  I think I get it now.  Try giving it a tty in /etc/inittab.  Not   
    MK> sure what Debian's looks like but on my system I could give it it's   
    MK> own by editing a tty6 like this;   
    MK> 6:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/mc tty6 9600   
      
   Sorry, no joy. It just locks up when I switch to the terminal (blank screen,   
   blinking cursor at 0,0) AND locks up the VM and everything except Win 7   
   {chuckle}.   
      
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