ERROR: ncurses-native-6.5-r0 do_populate_sysroot: Error executing a python function in exec_func_python() autogenerated:

The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: 'exec_func_python() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
     0001:
 *** 0002:siteconfig_do_siteconfig(d)
     0003:
File: '/mnt/b/yoe/master/sources/poky/meta/classes/siteconfig.bbclass', lineno: 14, function: siteconfig_do_siteconfig
     0010:        return
     0011:    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(d.getVar('FILE_DIRNAME'), 'site_config')):
     0012:        bb.debug(1, "No site_config directory, skipping do_siteconfig")
     0013:        return
 *** 0014:    sstate_install(shared_state, d)
     0015:    bb.build.exec_func('do_siteconfig_gencache', d)
     0016:    sstate_clean(shared_state, d)
     0017:}
     0018:
File: '/mnt/b/yoe/master/sources/poky/meta/classes-global/sstate.bbclass', lineno: 239, function: sstate_install
     0235:    sstateinst = d.getVar("SSTATE_INSTDIR")
     0236:
     0237:    for state in ss['dirs']:
     0238:        prepdir(state[1])
 *** 0239:        bb.utils.rename(sstateinst + state[0], state[1])
     0240:
     0241:    sharedfiles = []
     0242:    shareddirs = []
     0243:    bb.utils.mkdirhier(d.expand("${SSTATE_MANIFESTS}"))
Exception: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /mnt/b/yoe/master/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/ncurses-native/6.5/temp/log.do_populate_sysroot.146350
ERROR: Task (virtual:native:/mnt/b/yoe/master/sources/poky/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.5.bb:do_populate_sysroot) failed with exit code '1'