The first place to look would be the INSTALLED_APPS setting in your settings file, but honestly that's one of those errors that could ultimately mean a lot of things. I've had it thrown on things ranging from circular imports to admin configuration issues to bad migrations. It might be time to spin up a debugger.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:52 PM, NoviceSortOf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Alex, > > Following the links you posted I've moved forward towards adding a custom > user and getting rid of get_profile(). > > This process though has introduced other issues. > > The error occurs both when running manage syncdb and when debugging view > that calls user. > > "AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'books.user' that has not been installed" > > My settings file clearly contains AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'books.user' > > And class user is defined per instructions online regarding migrating to a > custom user > inside of books.models.py. > > It appears to me that user as defined in books.models.py is installed on > the code level and am wondering where else the error message might be > referencing that tells me it is not 'installed'. > > Any suggested appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/afc26acd-3d2c-47ce-b696-4be15fb61357%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/afc26acd-3d2c-47ce-b696-4be15fb61357%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2Bv0ZYVw-bUTLFJ65%2B7bgGLjeMz7RUtQ6g9sAj3MO73znwPP-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
