Title: Error 13
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error 13

 *  Resolved [fatboy42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatboy42/)
 * (@fatboy42)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/)
 * I did a quick search on this and couldn’t find anything on it. I installed WordPress
   2.0 on my site the other day. It was working fine up until a few minutes ago 
   when I logged onto my site. It is giving me this error:
 * WordPress database error: [Can’t create/write to file ‘/tmp/#sql_204d_0.MYI’ (
   Errcode: 13)]
    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt <=‘
   2006-01-10 01:40:59’ AND (post_status = “publish” OR post_author = 1 AND post_status!
   = ‘draft’ AND post_status != ‘static’) AND post_status != “attachment” GROUP 
   BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5
 * It just started doing this tonite. I haven’t done any mods to it other than changing
   the default graphic a couple days ago. Any ideas what could be causing this? 
   Thanks in advance.
 * [http://www.fecklessthings.com](http://www.fecklessthings.com)

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/#post-314714)
 * It’s a mysql error – contact your host.
 *  Thread Starter [fatboy42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatboy42/)
 * (@fatboy42)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/#post-314716)
 * Sorry about that. Your right. Everything is down now, including their main site.
   Thanks.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/#post-314718)
 * No need for apologies 🙂 – sorry to hear that your site is down. I hope they 
   will fix it soon.
 *  Thread Starter [fatboy42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatboy42/)
 * (@fatboy42)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/#post-314736)
 * It’s back up already. Thanks again for the help.

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [tmp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tmp/)

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 * Last reply from: [fatboy42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatboy42/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-13/#post-314736)
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