From 4a910f3de35338df7d4fcd8b7729fd1e31edaad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Johnson <me@adamj.eu>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:02:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #34010 -- Made parallel tests using spawn set up
 Django.

Bug in 3b3f38b3b09b0f2373e51406ecb8c9c45d36aebc.

Thanks Kevin Renskers for the report.
---
 django/test/runner.py   | 2 ++
 docs/releases/4.1.2.txt | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/django/test/runner.py b/django/test/runner.py
index 24ce766ce1..f2a91373b1 100644
--- a/django/test/runner.py
+++ b/django/test/runner.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from contextlib import contextmanager
 from importlib import import_module
 from io import StringIO
 
+import django
 from django.core.management import call_command
 from django.db import connections
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase, TestCase
@@ -418,6 +419,7 @@ def _init_worker(
             if process_setup_args is None:
                 process_setup_args = ()
             process_setup(*process_setup_args)
+        django.setup()
         setup_test_environment()
 
     for alias in connections:
diff --git a/docs/releases/4.1.2.txt b/docs/releases/4.1.2.txt
index 809d583a78..47b53f0e8b 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.1.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.1.2.txt
@@ -27,3 +27,7 @@ Bugfixes
 * Fixed a bug in Django 4.1 that caused :attr:`.ModelAdmin.autocomplete_fields`
   to be incorrectly selected after adding/changing related instances via popups
   (:ticket:`34025`).
+
+* Fixed a regression in Django 4.1 where the app registry was not populated
+  when running parallel tests with the ``multiprocessing`` start method
+  ``spawn`` (:ticket:`34010`).