South Migration App Has No Migrations

If you get this error for an app that truly doesn’t have any migrations, and perhaps isn’t even related to your project, it most likely means the south_migrationhistory table has row that matches one of your INSTALLED_APPS.

This can happen if at one point the app had migrations, but the latest version doesn’t (happens to third party apps), or you once built an app with migrations in the early days of your project.

Remove it via SQL to fix the problem.

DELETE FROM south_migrationhistory WHERE app_name = ‘offending_appname’;