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My django project had a working admin page, but all of the sudden I started receiving: "Unknown column 'django_content_type.name' in 'field list'" whenever I try to access the admin page. I can still access some portions of the admin, just not the main page.

I'm pretty new to django and python, so I have no idea where to look.

Here's the full error:

InternalError at /admin/
(1054, u"Unknown column 'django_content_type.name' in 'field list'")
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
Django Version: 1.7.7
Exception Type: InternalError
Exception Value:    
(1054, u"Unknown column 'django_content_type.name' in 'field list'")
Exception Location: c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pymysql\err.py in _check_mysql_exception, line 115
Python Executable:  c:\Python27\python.exe
Python Version: 2.7.9
Python Path:    
['c:\\users\\dhysong\\Documents\\School\\CS6310\\Project4\\CS6310',
 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\python27.zip',
 'c:\\Python27\\DLLs',
 'c:\\Python27\\lib',
 'c:\\Python27\\lib\\plat-win',
 'c:\\Python27\\lib\\lib-tk',
 'c:\\Python27',
 'c:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages']
Server time:    Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:17:05 -0400

html error occurs on line 63:

In template c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\templates\admin\index.html, error at line 63
1054
53  <div id="content-related">
54      <div class="module" id="recent-actions-module">
55          <h2>{% trans 'Recent Actions' %}</h2>
56          <h3>{% trans 'My Actions' %}</h3>
57              {% load log %}
58              {% get_admin_log 10 as admin_log for_user user %}
59              {% if not admin_log %}
60              <p>{% trans 'None available' %}</p>
61              {% else %}
62              <ul class="actionlist">
63              {% for entry in admin_log %}
64              <li class="{% if entry.is_addition %}addlink{% endif %}{% if entry.is_change %}changelink{% endif %}{% if entry.is_deletion %}deletelink{% endif %}">
65                  {% if entry.is_deletion or not entry.get_admin_url %}
66                      {{ entry.object_repr }}
67                  {% else %}
68                      <a href="{{ entry.get_admin_url }}">{{ entry.object_repr }}</a>
69                  {% endif %}
70                  <br/>
71                  {% if entry.content_type %}
72                      <span class="mini quiet">{% filter capfirst %}{% trans entry.content_type.name %}{% endfilter %}</span>
73                  {% else %}

Answers

I had this same issue just now and it was related to different versions of django. I updated all of the machines working on my project to django 1.8 using pip install -U Django and everything worked fine after that.