#33960 closed Bug (fixed)
migrate command crashes on SQLite < 3.20.
| Reported by: | Aristotelis Mikropoulos | Owned by: | Mariusz Felisiak | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | Core (Management commands) | Version: | 4.1 | 
| Severity: | Release blocker | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no | 
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no | 
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no | 
Description
Creating a fresh project and app in a fresh virtual environment, then adding the app in INSTALLED_APPS (either bare name, or appname.apps.AppnameConfig), and then running python manage.py migrate causes:
$ python manage.py migrate
Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions
Running migrations:
  Applying auth.0001_initial...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 22, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 18, in main
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 446, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 440, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 402, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 448, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 96, in wrapped
    res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 349, in handle
    post_migrate_state = executor.migrate(
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 135, in migrate
    state = self._migrate_all_forwards(
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 167, in _migrate_all_forwards
    state = self.apply_migration(
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 255, in apply_migration
    migration_recorded = True
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/schema.py", line 39, in __exit__
    self.connection.check_constraints()
  File "/home/indy/Desktop/env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 289, in check_constraints
    for column_name, (
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)
relations referenced in lines 289-292 of db/backends/sqlite3/base.py
for column_name, (
    referenced_column_name,
    referenced_table_name,
) in relations:
contains {'permission_id': ('id', 'auth_permission'), 'group_id': ('id', 'auth_group')}, so it makes sense to cause the ValueError.
Ubuntu 16.04
Python 3.8
Django 4.1
I don't change any settings (so, sqlite3), don't define any models, don't do any other changes.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 3 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to | 
|---|---|
| Severity: | Normal → Release blocker | 
| Status: | new → assigned | 
| Summary: | `python manage.py migrate` causes `ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)` → migrate command crashes on SQLite < 3.20. | 
| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted | 
Thanks for the report! Regression in 0b95a96ee10d3e12aef01d449467bcf4641286b4.