“django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation ”app_user“ does not exist” during manage.py test

Question

My setup:

• Django 1.8.3
• Python 2.7.10
• Ubuntu 14.04
• django-two-factor-auth==1.2.0

I get the following error when I ru

Answer 1

You have not given any code so its difficult to understand your models relations. But can I guess that you have passed the ForeignKey model as an instance? Try to give it as a string

class MyModel(models.Model):
    fk_field = models.ForeignKey('path.to.other.model')    # same as from path.models import model

This usually works out. Hope it does for you too!

Answer 2

I had a similar issue with manage.py test when I ran it in gitlab CI jobs, I was able to fix this by creating a variable called CI in my base.py settings file

base.py

"""
Set CI Variable to True when running: "manage.py test"
"""
CI = True  

and in my settings.py:

if CI:
    class DisableMigrations(object):

        def __contains__(self, item):
            return True

        def __getitem__(self, item):
            return None # For Django 1.10+

MIGRATION_MODULES = DisableMigrations()

Answer 3

I've got same error beacuse one of my django applications have not migrations directory. Try to watch carefully all your apps folders which are present in INSTALLED_APPS.

Answer 4

This should be solved by running:

python manage.py migrate auth
python manage.py migrate app
python manage.py migrate

Answer 5

Got the same issue, and since it happens on ./manage.py test, your migrations may be broken.
Since Django 1.7, there is a new setting called MIGRATION_MODULES, in which you configure your app's migration modules.
Adding the following workaround in settings.py (found here) skips migrations on tests, and solved it for me:

class DisableMigrations(object):

    def __contains__(self, item):
        return True

    def __getitem__(self, item):
        return "notmigrations"

MIGRATION_MODULES = DisableMigrations()

Answer 6

python manage.py migrate auth

This works.