on_delete=CASCADE for related objects causing a Matching query does not exist error

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Steps

1. What version of Python and Django are you using?

python --version
Python 3.10.14
django-admin --version
4.2.3

2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
   using docker image python:3.10-slim-bullseye

3. What did you do?
   db schema is the following:
   user model has several related objects (in their str methods reference the user self.user)

e.g.

class User():
   # pass

class Item():
   name = ...
   user = models.OneToOneField('User', related_name="item", on_delete=models.CASCADE,null=True,blank=True)
   
   def __str__():
      return f'{self.name} for {self.user}'

• when I try to delete the user model from either the admin panel or the API endpoint

4. What did you expect to see?

• the Item object DELETE Operation is logged and the object is deleted
• User delete DELETE Operation is not logged although the object itself is deleted

5. What did you see instead?

• it throws Matching Query Does not exist Exception
• the Item object DELETE Operation is logged and the object is deleted
• User delete DELETE Operation is not logged although the object itself is deleted

Debugging

After debugging I found that the issue results from the pre/post delete signals for the Item object when trying to write CRUD logs for the delete operations (tried to remove easy audit and remove the str method and it worked)