Testing against Django installed in '/tmp/buildd/python-django-1.11~alpha1/django' with up to 4 processes Creating test database for alias 'default'... Cloning test database for alias 'default'... Cloning test database for alias 'default'... Cloning test database for alias 'default'... Creating test database for alias 'other'... Cloning test database for alias 'other'... Cloning test database for alias 'other'... Cloning test database for alias 'other'... System check identified no issues (0 silenced). Traceback (most recent call last): File "./runtests.py", line 492, in options.exclude_tags, File "./runtests.py", line 286, in django_tests extra_tests=extra_tests, File "/tmp/buildd/python-django-1.11~alpha1/django/test/runner.py", line 603, in run_tests result = self.run_suite(suite) File "/tmp/buildd/python-django-1.11~alpha1/django/test/runner.py", line 567, in run_suite return runner.run(suite) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/runner.py", line 151, in run test(result) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/unittest/suite.py", line 70, in __call__ return self.run(*args, **kwds) File "/tmp/buildd/python-django-1.11~alpha1/django/test/runner.py", line 370, in run subsuite_index, events = test_results.next(timeout=0.1) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 668, in next raise value TypeError: can't pickle traceback objects test_disabled_serving (staticfiles_tests.test_views.TestServeDisabled) failed: ImproperlyConfigured(u"AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model 'auth.User' that has not been installed",) Unfortunately, tracebacks cannot be pickled, making it impossible for the parallel test runner to handle this exception cleanly. In order to see the traceback, you should install tblib: pip install tblib