Also when using simulators drivers and starting up ekos, defining a job, running it shows:

Connection to INDI host at localhost on port 7,624 lost. Server disconnected: -1
after a few seconds of job start (when status would be switching to "slewing")

Then, when re-starting ekos, i would be warned that another indi server is running, to which i can't connect.
so starting a new indi server gets me to the old problem with job start. sends me into the error->idling loop, with no debug output whatsoever.

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