diff --git a/lib/MDB2/Driver/sqlite3.php b/lib/MDB2/Driver/sqlite3.php
index 967e3335b1338c3a5af33eaaf25a3f405d9a8e33..a41aeed4850801d8a847ffdd3073bff9fed1a65a 100644
--- a/lib/MDB2/Driver/sqlite3.php
+++ b/lib/MDB2/Driver/sqlite3.php
@@ -582,12 +582,6 @@ class MDB2_Driver_sqlite3 extends MDB2_Driver_Common
         return $query;
     }
 
-    /* Dummy interface for sqlite, to stay compatible with the database abstraction */
-    function getUserInfo() {
-	return "sqlite standard user";
-    }
-
-
     // }}}
     // {{{ getServerVersion()
 
diff --git a/lib/db.php b/lib/db.php
index 4bcb184b100f67a9a0aae044f653371443bc7fa4..ede8ba897e9ee321d88b859b634ab5fe160f9817 100644
--- a/lib/db.php
+++ b/lib/db.php
@@ -97,14 +97,6 @@ class OC_DB {
 				die( $error );
 			}
 
-			self::$DBConnection->loadModule('Manager');
-			if (count(self::$DBConnection->listTables()) == 0) {
-				$error = 'database tables not initialized, using '.$CONFIG_DBTYPE.'. ('.self::$DBConnection->getUserInfo() . ')';
-				if(defined("DEBUG") && DEBUG) {error_log( $error);}
-				if(defined("DEBUG") && DEBUG) {error_log( self::$DBConnection->getUserInfo());}
-				die( $error );
-			    }
-
 			// We always, really always want associative arrays
 			self::$DBConnection->setFetchMode(MDB2_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);