id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
25304	Trying to create a super user before first migrate raise a database error	Maxime Lorant	nobody	"When creating a new project, you can sometimes forget to run `manage.py migrate` before creating the initial superuser (especially if you don't execute `runserver` before, which display a warning about migrations not applied). The resulting error make sense, it can't access to auth_user, since it does not exist yet: 


{{{
$ django-admin.py startproject sample
$ cd sample/ && python manage.py createsuperuser
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""manage.py"", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
[...]
  File ""/vagrant/django/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py"", line 85, in handle
    default_username = get_default_username()
  File ""/vagrant/django/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py"", line 189, in get_default_username
    auth_app.User._default_manager.get(username=default_username)
[...]
  File ""/vagrant/django/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py"", line 323, in execute
    return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
django.db.utils.OperationalError: no such table: auth_user
}}}

... but with a little try/except, it could be nicer and give a more meaningful information:

{{{
$ python manage.py createsuperuser
CommandError: You must execute `manage.py migrate` once before creating a super user
}}}

I have a patch ready (as I said, it just a try/except, see attachment) but, if accepted, it would need unit tests to be complete.
"	Cleanup/optimization	new	contrib.auth	1.8	Normal				Unreviewed	1	0	0		1	0