Comments on: Blogroll and Categories not working in Wordpress 2.3.2

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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:15:03 +0000

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By: RobertMfromLI

RobertMfromLI — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:56:48 +0000

So… I ran into a similar problem. And after searching through and reading a plethora of posts on the matter, got nowhere. Finally, I found this page.

Turns out, my problem was somewhat related (and this page pointed me in the correct direction). I had TMP variables assigned for my OS (OS/2 Warp Server), but had taken the drive offline that those directories were on. Didnt give it much thought, and the OS itself didn’t complain, because it doesn’t really use the directories – it just tells programs where they are.

So, after seeing this, I moved those directories to a place that actually existed, and voila! Working blog!!

By: songs

songs — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:54:36 +0000

Mike, The categories don’t look white to me?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:59:01 +0000

My categories are just blank white pages and I don’t know why. Can anyone please take a look by clicking one of my categories? Please.

By: Mick West

Mick West — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:19:23 +0000

It's the Tiga theme, there are links to the theme and a patch for latest version of wordpress at the bottom of every page here. I added the graphics myself. It's quite a customizable theme, but seems not directly supported by the original creator.

By: Dan (future gadgets blog)

Dan (future gadgets blog) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:51:51 +0000

I like your blog theme. I want to use it on my blog.
Can you please tell me from where I can download these theme?

Many thanks

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Dan owner of the future gadgets blog future gadgets and inventions

By: Mick West

Mick West — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:58:05 +0000

I think I needed root access to find and delete the file – I actually ssh’ed in there (as root) to delete it. So probably in your case, yes you would have to get the hosting company to delete it from the shared server.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:53:52 +0000

okay, I follow the debug step and get the error “WordPress database error: [Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_74b4_0.MYD' (Errcode: 17)]”

I am on a shared hosting server. Where do I find that file? Or does my hosting company have to help me? I have looked around using their file manager and not found it.

thanks

Richard

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Doppeldeutig » Blogroll und Kategorien weg… — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:16:14 +0000

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By: Mick West

Mick West — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:32:46 +0000

This is a MySQL error, and not directly related to wordpress.

MySQL is trying to write a temporary file (#sql_126c_0.MYD in your case). However, for some reason the file already exists, and so it cannot write it.

The solution is to delete the file. Now I see in your case there is no mention of the /tmp/ directory, so I’m not sure where the file would be. You could just do a search for it.

While this is a cause, it is not the ROOT cause. Is suspect the root cause is a combination of whatever left the temporary file there, and the code the is unable to deal with it being left there. I suspect the former is due to something crashing without deleting the file, and the latter is really a bug in MySQL. This bug might well be fixed in later versions (I have 4.1.22, and they are up to 4.1.23/24 now).

Perhaps, if you verify the file is there, you could upgrade MySQL first, to see if that also fixes the problem.

The problem as stated in the title (Blogroll and Categories not working in Wordpress 2.3.2) is a symptom of other problems as well. If someone does not get the error described above, then they are in a different situation, with a different solution.