I recently upgraded my Ubuntu to 14.04, and consulted this question to solve my erros, ImportError: No module named _io in ubuntu 14.04. That was solved perfectly.
I also checked out this question as it's similar to mine, Consistently getting ImportError: Could not import settings 'myapp.settings' error, but could not use the same solution.
I do not use manage.py in my project and I have done numerous exports of the PYTHON_PATH to no end of my issues. Here is my traceback;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/bin/django-admin.py", line 5, in <module>
management.execute_from_command_line()
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 261, in fetch_command
commands = get_commands()
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 107, in get_commands
apps = settings.INSTALLED_APPS
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 54, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 49, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File "/home/thabang/.virtualenvs/lottostar/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__
% (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)
ImportError: Could not import settings 'lottostar.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Is there an import error in the settings file?): No module named lottostar.settings