Just in case someone else runs into the same problem.
I finally got xastir running, and kept running after a reboot, by purging the version of xastir that's available via the Ubuntu repository (for the third time) and installing an on-line deb file. It's the same version as the repository file and, it it matters, I'm using Kubuntu 20.04.
Thank you, everyone, for your indulgence. -- Regards, Phil _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir