AttributeError: 'pysqlite2.dbapi2.Connection' object has no attribute 'execute'

[Steve Sakoman]

Several folks who are attempting to use OE for gumstix are
encountering the issue below:

torchris at 1[gumstix]$ bitbake gumstix-basic-image
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 134, in ?
   main()
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 114, in main
   cooker = bb.cooker.BBCooker(configuration)
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py",
line 65, in __init__
   self.parseConfigurationFile( os.path.join( "conf", "bitbake.conf" ) )
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py",
line 353, in parseConfigurationFile
   bb.fetch.fetcher_init(self.configuration.data)
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch/__init__.py",
line 97, in fetcher_init
   pd.delDomain("BB_URI_HEADREVS")
 File "/home/torchris/gumstix/gumstix-oe/bitbake/lib/bb/persist_data.py",
line 66, in delDomain
   self.connection.execute("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS %s;" % domain)
AttributeError: 'pysqlite2.dbapi2.Connection' object has no attribute 'execute'

Build machines are SuSE and MEPIS

Any ideas?

Steve