ValueError: The field admin.LogEntry.user

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Hello everyone,

I’m encountering an issue during migrations in a microservices application. The tables are already present in the database, and initially, I applied migrations without using a custom user model (by setting managed=False in the model meta) for using other models.

I’ve come across examples suggesting to resolve the issue by deleting the database and migration files. However, I’m seeking an alternative solution that doesn’t require deleting the entire database.

packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 302, in handle
    pre_migrate_apps = pre_migrate_state.apps
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 57, in __get__
    res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/state.py", line 566, in apps
    return StateApps(self.real_apps, self.models)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/db/migrations/state.py", line 637, in __init__
    raise ValueError("\n".join(error.msg for error in errors))
ValueError: The field admin.LogEntry.user was declared with a lazy reference to 'inspection.customuser', but app 'inspection' doesn't provide model 'customuser'.