close consistency check fails: Start key must be less than end key

08 13:38:56,959 [tabletserver.Tablet] ERROR: Failed to do close consistency check for tablet 2;<
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Start key must be less than end key in range (2;%00; file: [] 9223372036854775807 true, 2; log%00;: [] 9223372036854775807 false)
        at org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Range.<init>(Range.java:158)
        at org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Range.bound(Range.java:454)
        at org.apache.accumulo.core.client.impl.ScannerIterator.<init>(ScannerIterator.java:129)
        at org.apache.accumulo.core.client.impl.ScannerImpl.iterator(ScannerImpl.java:119)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.util.MetadataTable.getFileAndLogEntries(MetadataTable.java:873)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.Tablet.closeConsistencyCheck(Tablet.java:2666)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.Tablet.completeClose(Tablet.java:2621)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.Tablet.close(Tablet.java:2515)
        at org.apache.accumulo.server.tabletserver.TabletServer$UnloadTabletHandler.run(TabletServer.java:2228)
        at org.apache.accumulo.core.util.LoggingRunnable.run(LoggingRunnable.java:34)
        at cloudtrace.instrument.TraceRunnable.run(TraceRunnable.java:47)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)