django: 'python manage.py migrate' taking hours (and other weird behavior)

Question

I made some changes to one of my tables in models.py and tried migrating it with 'python manage.py migrate,' and it's taking hours. I only changed the names of three field (column) names, and it's been running for over 2 hours now. It ran smoothly (I think) in a matter of minutes when I created the table earlier this morning. Start of season is the model where changes were made.

Here is what from models.py looks like now:

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.gis.db import models as gismodels
# from django.contrib.gis import admin

# Create your models here.

class Location(models.Model): # table name automatically chirps_location
    locationID = models.IntegerField(default=0, primary_key=True)
    lat = models.FloatField(default=0.0)
    lon = models.FloatField(default=0.0)
    geom = gismodels.PointField(null=True)
    objects = gismodels.GeoManager()
    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"LocationID: " + unicode(self.locationID)

# admin.site.unregister(Location)
# admin.site.register(Location, admin.OSMGeoAdmin)


class Rainfall(models.Model):
    location = models.ForeignKey(Location)
    year = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    pentad_num = models.IntegerField(default=0)        
    pentad_val = models.FloatField(default=0.0)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['location', 'year', 'pentad_num']

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"LocationID: " + unicode(self.location.locationID) + u" Year: " + unicode(self.year) + u" Pentad: " + unicode(self.pentad_num)


class Start_of_Season(models.Model):
    location = models.ForeignKey(Location)
    crop = models.CharField(default='', max_length=40)
    year = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    first_rain = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    onset_rain = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    start_season = models.IntegerField(default=0)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['location', 'crop', 'year']    

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"LocationID: " + unicode(self.location.locationID) + u" Year: " + unicode(self.year) + u" Start of Season pentad: " + unicode(self.start_season)

There was also some weird behavior that I couldn't explain going on before this, so I'll give a brief rundown of all of that too in case it's all related.

At first, my Start_of_Season class looked like this (notice the only difference is the names of the last 3 fields):

class Start_of_Season(models.Model):
    location = models.ForeignKey(Location)
    crop = models.CharField(default='', max_length=40)
    year = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    first_rain_pentad = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    onset_rain_pentad = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    start_season_pentad = models.IntegerField(default=0)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['location', 'crop', 'year']    

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u"LocationID: " + unicode(self.location.locationID) + u" Year: " + unicode(self.year) + u" Start of Season pentad: " + unicode(self.start_season)

Migrating it with:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

appeared to run smoothly.

But when I ran a python script (excerpt) to add rows to this newly created Start_of_Season table:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "access.settings")
from chirps.models import Location, Rainfall, Start_of_Season
django.setup()

try:
    with transaction.atomic():
        for loc in Location.objects.all():
            locID = loc.locationID
            for yr in range(1981, 2014):
                # some computations to find: c1, c2, c3
                start_of_season = Start_of_Season()
                start_of_season.location = Location.objects.get(locationID = locID)
                start_of_season.crop = 'millet'
                start_of_season.year = yr
                start_of_season.first_rain_pentad = c1
                start_of_season.onset_rain_pentad = c2
                start_of_season.start_season_pentad = c3
                start_of_season.save()

At first, the rows were never added to the database (according to psql at least). Then I got the error "start_of_season has no attribute start_season" which is weird because I never tried to access that attribute in my script, only "start_of_season.start_season_pentad"

So then I thought, okay, I'll change the names of the fields so that start_of_season does have that attribute. And that's when I edited models.py to look like the excerpt at the top of the post.

After updating updating models.py,

python manage.py makemigrations

ran with no errors:

(access_mw)mwooten@ip-10-159-67-226:~/dev/access$ python manage.py makemigrations
Did you rename start_of_season.first_rain_pentad to start_of_season.first_rain (a IntegerField)? [y/N] y
Did you rename start_of_season.onset_rain_pentad to start_of_season.onset_rain (a IntegerField)? [y/N] y
Did you rename start_of_season.start_season_pentad to start_of_season.start_season (a IntegerField)? [y/N] y
Migrations for 'chirps':
  0010_auto_20150901_1454.py:
    - Rename field first_rain_pentad on start_of_season to first_rain
    - Rename field onset_rain_pentad on start_of_season to onset_rain
    - Rename field start_season_pentad on start_of_season to start_season

, but:

python manage.py migrate

has been stuck here for hours:

(access_mw)mwooten@ip-10-159-67-226:~/dev/access$ python manage.py migrate
Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: staticfiles, gis, djgeojson, messages, leaflet
  Apply all migrations: admin, chirps, contenttypes, auth, sessions
Synchronizing apps without migrations:
  Creating tables...
    Running deferred SQL...
  Installing custom SQL...
Running migrations:
  Rendering model states... DONE
  Applying chirps.0010_auto_20150901_1454...

I don't see why this should take so long, seeing as how creating the actual table didn't. I'm also not sure why I was getting the other errors. Any ideas as to what's going on?

Thanks