Comment 47 for bug 1364630

Maybe

-8<-
rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output pipe '/dev/xconsole': No such file or directory [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
->8-

has something to do with this?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/459730/comments/33

seems to not only resolve this rsyslogd-warning, but the init-error as well, at least here.