diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 49766bb63..2e0380a68 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ before_script:
   - evennia collectstatic --noinput
   - mysql -u root -e "SHOW TABLE STATUS;" evennia
   - mysql -u root -e "SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM accounts_accountdb;" evennia
-  - mysql -u root -e "SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM accounts_accountdb_user_permissions;" evennia
 
 script:
   - coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ../bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia
diff --git a/evennia/server/validators.py b/evennia/server/validators.py
index faa1aa68c..f58b44e6e 100644
--- a/evennia/server/validators.py
+++ b/evennia/server/validators.py
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ class EvenniaUsernameAvailabilityValidator:
             )
 
         # Check database
-        exists = AccountDB.objects.filter(username__iexact=username).exists()
+        exists = AccountDB.objects.filter(username__iexact=username)
+        print("\nusernamevalidator query: {}".format(exists.query))
+        exists = exists.exists()
         if exists:
             raise ValidationError(
                 _('Sorry, that username is already taken.'),