Makemigrations in Django - django

Question

I cannot "makemigrations" in my Django project. When I try to do
"python manage.py makemigrations"
It shows the following
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 15, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 375, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 316, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 353, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 83, in wrapped
res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py", line 89, in handle
loader = MigrationLoader(None, ignore_no_migrations=True)
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/loader.py", line 49, in __init__
self.build_graph()
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/loader.py", line 273, in build_graph
raise exc
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/loader.py", line 247, in build_graph
self.graph.validate_consistency()
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/graph.py", line 243, in validate_consistency
[n.raise_error() for n in self.node_map.values() if isinstance(n, DummyNode)]
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/graph.py", line 243, in <listcomp>
[n.raise_error() for n in self.node_map.values() if isinstance(n, DummyNode)]
File "/home/ani/Desktop/Backup/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/migrations/graph.py", line 96, in raise_error
raise NodeNotFoundError(self.error_message, self.key, origin=self.origin)
django.db.migrations.exceptions.NodeNotFoundError: Migration djoser.0001_initial dependencies reference nonexistent parent node ('auth', '0011_update_proxy_permissions')
I tried installing mysqlclient and creating the database all over again but then it doesn't work at all.

Answer 1

Your migrations directory is broken. Django creates migrations files for each migration (each time you type makemigration.
Currently, one of your migrations file has something like:
dependencies = [
('accounts', '0011_update_proxy_permissions'),
]
And migrations/0011_update_proxy_permissions.py doesn't exist. You need either edit this migration manually or remove everything in migrations directory and run makemigrations from scratch. If you remove migrations you will also need to drop the database so django would create it from the scratch.
There're a lot of articles out there that would help you to investigate your issue further. Like this one