Openwisp2 Migration fails on mysql

[Damodara1687]

New installation, with MYsql:

TASK [openwisp.openwisp2 : migrate] ******************************************** fatal: [pOpenwisp2.westerwald.local]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": ["./manage.py", "migrate", "--noinput"], "msg": "stdout: Operations to perform:\n Apply all migrations: account, admin, auth, authtoken, check, config, connection, contenttypes, device_monitoring, firmware_upgrader, geo, monitoring, openwisp_ipam, openwisp_notifications, openwisp_users, pki, reversion, sessions, sites, socialaccount, topology\nRunning migrations:\n Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK\n Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK\n Applying auth.0001_initial... OK\n Applying auth.0002_alter_permission_name_max_length... OK\n Applying auth.0003_alter_user_email_max_length... OK\n Applying auth.0004_alter_user_username_opts... OK\n Applying auth.0005_alter_user_last_login_null... OK\n Applying auth.0006_require_contenttypes_0002... OK\n Applying auth.0007_alter_validators_add_error_messages... OK\n Applying auth.0008_alter_user_username_max_length... OK\n Applying openwisp_users.0001_initial... OK\n Applying account.0001_initial... OK\n Applying account.0002_email_max_length... OK\n Applying admin.0001_initial... OK\n Applying admin.0002_logentry_remove_auto_add... OK\n Applying admin.0003_logentry_add_action_flag_choices... OK\n Applying auth.0009_alter_user_last_name_max_length... OK\n Applying auth.0010_alter_group_name_max_length... OK\n Applying auth.0011_update_proxy_permissions... OK\n Applying auth.0012_alter_user_first_name_max_length... OK\n Applying authtoken.0001_initial... OK\n Applying authtoken.0002_auto_20160226_1747... OK\n Applying authtoken.0003_tokenproxy... OK\n Applying openwisp_users.0002_auto_20180508_2017... OK\n Applying openwisp_users.0003_default_organization... OK\n Applying openwisp_users.0004_default_groups... OK\n Applying openwisp_notifications.0001_initial... OK\n Applying monitoring.0001_squashed_0023_alert_settings_tolerance_remove_default... OK\n Applying pki.0001_initial... OK\n Applying config.0001_squashed_0002_config_settings_uuid... OK\n Applying config.0003_template_tags... OK\n Applying config.0004_add_device_model... OK\n Applying check.0001_initial_squashed_0002_check_unique_together... OK\n Applying check.0003_create_ping... OK\n Applying check.0004_rename_active_to_is_active... OK\n Applying check.0005_create_config_applied... OK\n Applying check.0006_rename_check_check_check_type... OK\n Applying check.0007_create_checks... OK\n Applying openwisp_ipam.0001_initial...\n:stderr: System check identified some issues:\n\nWARNINGS:\nmonitoring.Metric.main_tags: (fields.W162) MariaDB does not support a database index on longtext columns.\n\tHINT: An index won't be created. Silence this warning if you don't care about it.\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py\", line 87, in _execute\n return self.cursor.execute(sql)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py\", line 75, in execute\n return self.cursor.execute(query, args)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py\", line 206, in execute\n res = self._query(query)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py\", line 319, in _query\n db.query(q)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py\", line 254, in query\n _mysql.connection.query(self, query)\nMySQLdb.OperationalError: (4161, \"Unknown data type: 'cidr'\")\n\nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/./manage.py\", line 10, in \n execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py\", line 446, in execute_from_command_line\n utility.execute()\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py\", line 440, in execute\n self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py\", line 414, in run_from_argv\n self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py\", line 460, in execute\n output = self.handle(*args, **options)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py\", line 98, in wrapped\n res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py\", line 290, in handle\n post_migrate_state = executor.migrate(\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py\", line 131, in migrate\n state = self._migrate_all_forwards(\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py\", line 163, in _migrate_all_forwards\n state = self.apply_migration(\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py\", line 248, in apply_migration\n state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/migration.py\", line 131, in apply\n operation.database_forwards(\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/operations/models.py\", line 93, in database_forwards\n schema_editor.create_model(model)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/mysql/schema.py\", line 45, in create_model\n super().create_model(model)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py\", line 432, in create_model\n self.execute(sql, params or None)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py\", line 192, in execute\n cursor.execute(sql, params)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py\", line 67, in execute\n return self._execute_with_wrappers(\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py\", line 80, in _execute_with_wrappers\n return executor(sql, params, many, context)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py\", line 89, in _execute\n return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/utils.py\", line 91, in __exit__\n raise dj_exc_value.with_traceback(traceback) from exc_value\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py\", line 87, in _execute\n return self.cursor.execute(sql)\n File \"/opt/openwisp2/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py\", line 75, in execute\n return self.cursor.execute(query, args)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py\", line 206, in execute\n res = self._query(query)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py\", line 319, in _query\n db.query(q)\n File \"/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py\", line 254, in query\n _mysql.connection.query(self, query)\ndjango.db.utils.OperationalError: (4161, \"Unknown data type: 'cidr'\")\n", "path": "/opt/openwisp2/env/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin", "syspath": ["/tmp/ansible_django_manage_payload_6o23t68o/ansible_django_manage_payload.zip", "/usr/lib/python39.zip", "/usr/lib/python3.9", "/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload", "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages", "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"]}

[pandafy]

We are tracking this issue at openwisp/openwisp-ipam#146. I would suggest using PostgreSQL if you require using Subnet Division Rule feature