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Following official instructions I got this:

Admin user does not exist.

Even though I ran superset fab create-admin and everything was ok.

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I found the reason is load_examples requires the exact name admin as the username for the administrator. I changed it to admin1 and it was not recognized.

This should be mentioned in the docs.

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  • Good point. We ask for the admin username, but in most of the codebase we simply assume it's "admin". Would you mind filing an issue on Github for this? Thanks! – Beto Dealmeida Jan 27 '21 at 16:58
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    I also had this error message after updating from 0.38 to 1.0.1 and when displaying world map charts. – curuba Feb 13 '21 at 10:28
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    I logged this issue: https://github.com/apache/superset/issues/13106 – curuba Feb 13 '21 at 10:45
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I solved it by removing the db and then re-initializing it, as follows:

Delete db:

cd /home/<user>/.superset/
rm -f superset.db

Reinitialize database:

superset db upgrade

Repeat the procedure according with the doc:

export FLASK_APP=superset
superset fab create-admin

And it should work properly:

Username [admin]: admin
User first name [admin]: 
User last name [user]: 
Email [admin@fab.org]: 
Password: 
Repeat for confirmation: 
Recognized Database Authentications.
Admin User admin created.
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