Django 1.8: migrations break with AbstractBaseUser

Question

I have a working Django 1.6 project that I'm upgrading to 1.8. I have a custom user model in app mainapp that looks like this:

class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    ...

manage.py migrate or syncdb fail with the following error:

Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: gis, gunicorn, staticfiles, guardian, messages, captcha, corsheaders, bootstrapform
  Apply all migrations: sessions, admin, sites, auth, contenttypes, mainapp
Synchronizing apps without migrations:
  Creating tables...
    Creating table guardian_userobjectpermission
    Creating table guardian_groupobjectpermission
    Creating table corsheaders_corsmodel
    Running deferred SQL...
    ...
    django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation "auth_permission" does not exist

I followed the answer in Django 1.8 RC1: ProgrammingError when creating database tables and ran makemigrations for the app (and all the other apps that can be migrated, including auth). No changes are detected for any of them and migrate continues to fail after this. How can I correct this?

HACKY WORKAROUND: I can get the project running by commenting out all my apps in INSTALLED_APPS, then adding them in a specific order and running migrate as I go along. WTF... there has to be a proper way to do this.

You might need to edit your mainapp initial migration to add a dependency on auth. — Daniel Roseman, May 01 '15 at 12:09
See [the docs](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/#migration-files) - just edit the `dependencies` list in your migration to reference `('auth', '0001_initial')`. — Daniel Roseman, May 01 '15 at 12:19
@DanielRoseman It's already there: `('auth', '0006_require_contenttypes_0002')` — kontextify, May 01 '15 at 12:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '15 at 17:40

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Turns out it was one of the third party apps I was using that needed upgrading. Not that you can tell from the error.

answered May 06 '15 at 17:40

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Which 3rd-party app was it? – mallyvai Aug 05 '15 at 21:16
@mallyvai: if I remember correctly, it was django-guardian. – kontextify Aug 06 '15 at 10:31
Noted... seems like another perms/auth related app running into issues here.. are your tests running now? – mallyvai Aug 06 '15 at 16:22

Django 1.8: migrations break with AbstractBaseUser

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