[Xastir] No stations display on Xastir

[James Jefferson]

For what it is worth, I can't get xastir working properly on my new Mandrake 
9.1 laptop. Everything compiles (shapelib, festival, imagemagick, ax25 kernel 
support) just fine and the program runs.

The problems:
1) None of my shapefiles in /usr/local/xastir/maps show up, but the the 
directory structure does. The directories and files have proper permissions 
and the data is valid.
2) Stations don't show up. I see data in the view packet data window, but 
nothing besides my icon shows up on the map. Only on one occasion did the 
stations show up on the map.
3) The tigermap doesn't time out. With a 20 second timeout xastir still hangs 
for > 1 minute until the tigermap server returns an image. So the map 
eventually gets displayed, but xastir stands still until then.

With all that said, the problem appears to be Mandrake 9.1 or something about 
my particular installation. Most of my testing was with the latest CVS files, 
but I tried re-compiling and running previously working versions of xastir 
and I got the same result - no stations and no shapefiles.

-Jim