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Trying to get mythtv going again from a long time ago. Started the computer up and it loaded new software but now it is telling me that it cannot find the mythtv server. The external drive is connected. Any ideas?

Sure, go to the logs. Not sure what "its is telling me" above refers to,
but the backend logs are usually in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
and the frontend's of course are mythfrontend.log.

OK really having to show my ignorance here. I opened a terminal then typed in /var/lib/mythtv/mythbackend.log and what came back was bash: /var/lib/mythtv/mythbackend.log: No such file or directory
I assume that is bad. I am also lost as to how to send you the log file contents if I ever find one.

It's a file, so cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log would work.

You may be able to see the error yourself.

But, in case it's huge, try this: stop the backend, for example sudo systemctl stop mythtv-backend
(that's for recent Ubuntu/Mythbuntu distributions, yours may use a different command.

Once stopped, do this to create a fresh log: sudo mythbackend -u mythtv --logpath /tmp
after the messages settle (figure one minute or less) type control-c.

Then attach file file in /tmp (the name will be obvious) here.

I typed that in and it retured that no such file or directory

/var/log/mythtv, my typo which if fixed above.

I found the log. It was in /var/log/mythtv I am not sure how to post a listing

gcccok12, you need to reply by selecting 'Full Editor & Preview, type your response and then select 'Attachments' and 'Add File'.

And, please be sure to follow the steps 5 up from here to create a fresh log.
The existing log is likely to be full of old runs.

Sorry about that. I hope I did it right this time. I am having one problem following this. Every time I exit MythTV Startup Status it restarts before I can look for the file. Is there a way to terminate it?

You'll need to mention the distribution you're running, I've commented on
Ubuntu/Mythbuntu above, but we really need to be sure. For example, I'm
running on Ubuntu 17.10 and mythbackend --version tells me that I'm on
version 30-Pre.

If you did find and run mythtv-setup.real, you can use the same logging options,
so: mythtv-setup.real --logpath /tmp would put a file in /tmp that you can attach.
Same with most myth* programs.

Hope I followed the steps correctly but I did not find a log file in /tmp

it is ubundu. Where is the version number kept

mythbackend --version

If there was no file in /tmp, then please paste the command line you used
and the output you saw on the terminal window.

I found the version. It is 16.04 LTS