thousands of "error: line <num>: bad flagvector"

[tsg1zzn]

Binary package hint: apport

When reporting a bug with ubuntu-bug (like this, ubuntu-bug apport) sometimes thousands of error lines is spewed to the console. Here's an example:
...
error: line 321790: bad flagvector
error: line 321796: bad flagvector
error: line 321803: bad flagvector
error: line 321809: bad flagvector
error: line 321814: bad flagvector
error: line 321820: bad flagvector
error: line 321822: bad flagvector
error: line 321831: bad flagvector
error: line 321833: bad flagvector
error: line 321842: bad flagvector
error: line 321844: bad flagvector
error: line 321853: bad flagvector
error: line 321856: bad flagvector
error: line 321869: bad flagvector
error: line 321870: bad flagvector
error: line 321878: bad flagvector
error: line 321880: bad flagvector
error: line 321881: bad flagvector
error: line 321887: bad flagvector
error: line 321889: bad flagvector
error: line 321890: bad flagvector
error: line 321896: bad flagvector
error: line 321897: bad flagvector
error: line 321902: bad flagvector
...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apport 1.14.1-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportLog:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 12 20:36:58 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 LANG=nb_NO.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport

[Carl-Christian Salvesen (ccsalvesen)]

The same happenes in gedit.

If I remove aspell-nb, the problem goes away.

Strace -f -F shows:

[pid 10898] access("/usr/share/gnome/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 10898] access("/usr/local/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.dic", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 10898] access("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.dic", F_OK) = 0
[pid 10898] access("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.aff", F_OK) = 0
[pid 10898] access("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.aff", F_OK) = 0
[pid 10898] open("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.aff", O_RDONLY) = 23
[pid 10898] fstat(23, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16920, ...}) = 0
[pid 10898] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fddda7e2000
[pid 10898] read(23, "SET ISO8859-1\n\n# This is generat"..., 4096) = 4096
[pid 10898] close(23) = 0
[pid 10898] munmap(0x7fddda7e2000, 4096) = 0
[pid 10898] open("/usr/share/myspell/dicts/nb_NO.dic", O_RDONLY) = 23
[pid 10898] fstat(23, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5111653, ...}) = 0
[pid 10898] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fddda7e2000
[pid 10898] read(23, "322043\nA.B.\nA.C.\nABC/\nABCa/\nABCe"..., 4096) = 4096
[pid 10898] mmap(NULL, 2584576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fddc825e000
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 4: bad flagvector\n", 30error: line 4: bad flagvector
) = 30
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 5: bad flagvector\n", 30error: line 5: bad flagvector
) = 30
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 7: bad flagvector\n", 30error: line 7: bad flagvector
) = 30
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 8: bad flagvector\n", 30error: line 8: bad flagvector
) = 30
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 9: bad flagvector\n", 30error: line 9: bad flagvector
) = 30
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 10: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 10: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 11: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 11: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 12: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 12: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 13: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 13: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 15: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 15: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 16: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 16: bad flagvector
) = 31
[pid 10898] write(2, "error: line 17: bad flagvector\n", 31error: line 17: bad flagvector
) = 31