Ok turns out to be sort of user error doh..

While setting up my focuser I had got the feeling that there was some sort of usb port clash and while trying to prevent that I had somehow ended up with it thinking it had no port. This for some reason causes the driver to crash taking kstars with it. It also means it doesn’t display the indi control panel making it hard to see what might be the problem.

Hacking the config xml enabled the debug logging and I eventually got a log file with the clue as to my having null as the port. Removing the entry in the profile and then adding it back resolved the problem and everything is now starting.

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