auth_user error with Django 1.8 and syncdb / migrate

Question

When upgrading to Django 1.8 (with zc.buildout) and running syncdb or migrate, I get this message:

django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation \"auth_user\" does no

Answer 1

I've migrated an old Django 1.6 project to Django 1.8 and previously we've used syncdb to migrate the database and we did not have initial migration steps for all apps in our project. With Django 1.8, you'll need a working database migrations. Running

manage.py makemigrations 

for all apps in our project fixed our problems.