S'OK, sussed it. I noticed that the date/time of the indi_eqmod_telescope binary file in /usr/bin was in June this year, then I remembered that when building libindi I'd forgotten to do the final sudo make install step until after I'd built one or two of the drivers. I suspect the version of indi_eqmod_telescope was an old one that came with libindi, building and installing indi_eqmod_telescope again did the trick, the time and date is now today and the indi server starts correctly.

Working again .

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