Django 1.7 – “No migrations to apply” when run migrate after makemigrations

I use Django1.7 with Mezzanine. I create simple profile (according to Mezzanine documentation) stored in separate app “profiles”:

class RoadmapProfile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField("auth.User")
    fullname = models.CharField(max_length=100, verbose_name="Full name")

Creation of migrations returns:

  Migrations for 'profiles':
      0001_initial.py:
        - Create model RoadmapProfile

When I run “migrate profiles”:

Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: profiles
Running migrations:
  No migrations to apply.

The issue is, when I try to open any page related to mezzanine.accounts (for example update account), it crashes with:

OperationalError at /accounts/update/

no such column: profiles_roadmapprofile.fullname

What I have done wrong?

Answer

Sounds like your initial migration was faked because the table already existed (probably with an outdated schema):

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/#adding-migrations-to-apps

“This will make a new initial migration for your app. Now, when you run migrate, Django will detect that you have an initial migration and that the tables it wants to create already exist, and will mark the migration as already applied.”

Otherwise you would get an no-such-table error :)

Did you clean up the applied-migrations table? That’s also a common cause for non-applied migrations.