This is output from the migrate command against an empty postgres DB.
16:05:39 [aaron@ender:~/code/busybodyweb] [busybody] master* ± python manage.py migrate Operations to perform: Synchronize unmigrated apps: stronghold, site_basics, gunicorn, djcelery_email, staticfiles, admindocs, messages, kombu_transport_django, djcelery, djangosecure, humanize, avatar, django_extensions, debug_toolbar, raven_compat, bootstrap3 Apply all migrations: sessions, admin, tastypie, auth, sites, contenttypes Synchronizing apps without migrations: Creating tables... Creating table avatar_avatar Creating table celery_taskmeta Creating table celery_tasksetmeta Creating table djcelery_intervalschedule Creating table djcelery_crontabschedule Creating table djcelery_periodictasks Creating table djcelery_periodictask Creating table djcelery_workerstate Creating table djcelery_taskstate Creating table djkombu_queue Creating table djkombu_message Running deferred SQL... Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 10, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 338, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 330, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 390, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 441, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 179, in handle created_models = self.sync_apps(connection, executor.loader.unmigrated_apps) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 317, in sync_apps cursor.execute(statement) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 79, in execute return super(CursorDebugWrapper, self).execute(sql, params) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 97, in __exit__ six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback) File "/home/aaron/.virtualenvs/busybody/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 62, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql) django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "auth_user" does not exist 16:06:20 [aaron@ender:~/code/busybodyweb] [busybody] master* 1 ± Then I downgrade to Django 1.7.7 and try again: 16:06:20 [aaron@ender:~/code/busybodyweb] [busybody] master* 1 ± pip install django==1.7.7 Downloading/unpacking django==1.7.7 Downloading Django-1.7.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.4MB): 7.4MB downloaded Installing collected packages: django Found existing installation: Django 1.8 Uninstalling Django: Successfully uninstalled Django Successfully installed django Cleaning up... 16:06:39 [aaron@ender:~/code/busybodyweb] [busybody] master* ± python manage.py migrate System check identified some issues: WARNINGS: ?: (1_6.W001) Some project unittests may not execute as expected. HINT: Django 1.6 introduced a new default test runner. It looks like this project was generated using Django 1.5 or earlier. You should ensure your tests are all running & behaving as expected. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.6/#new-test-runner for more information. Operations to perform: Synchronize unmigrated apps: stronghold, site_basics, djcelery_email, djcelery, debug_toolbar, kombu_transport_django, djangosecure, django_extensions, avatar, raven_compat, bootstrap3 Apply all migrations: sessions, admin, tastypie, auth, sites, contenttypes Synchronizing apps without migrations: Creating tables... Creating table avatar_avatar Creating table celery_taskmeta Creating table celery_tasksetmeta Creating table djcelery_intervalschedule Creating table djcelery_crontabschedule Creating table djcelery_periodictasks Creating table djcelery_periodictask Creating table djcelery_workerstate Creating table djcelery_taskstate Creating table djkombu_queue Creating table djkombu_message Installing custom SQL... Installing indexes... Running migrations: Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK Applying auth.0001_initial... OK Applying admin.0001_initial... OK Applying sessions.0001_initial... OK Applying sites.0001_initial... OK Applying tastypie.0001_initial... OK 16:06:43 [aaron@ender:~/code/busybodyweb] [busybody] master* ± Did I find a bug? -A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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