Question

I have just installed my Django project on a new system, and installed Django 1.4. However when I try to run manage.py runserver or manage.py syncdb I get this error from South:

Validating models...

Unhandled exception in thread started by <bound method Command.inner_run of <django.contrib.staticfiles.management.commands.runserver.Command object at 0x1a67810>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 91, in inner_run
    self.validate(display_num_errors=True)
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 266, in validate
    num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/validation.py", line 30, in get_validation_errors
    for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 158, in get_app_errors
    self._populate()
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 64, in _populate
    self.load_app(app_name, True)
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/loading.py", line 88, in load_app
    models = import_module('.models', app_name)
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/models.py", line 2, in <module>
    from south.db import DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS
  File "/home/saul/.virtualenvs/canada/lib/python2.7/site-packages/south/db/__init__.py", line 78, in <module>
    db = dbs[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS]
KeyError: 'default'

I am using SQlite currently. I think it might be because of this change with Django 1.4, however other users don’t seem to having my problem. All my packages are up to date.

Answer 1

You don’t have correct DATABASES in your settings. There should be a database named 'default'