Spurious error generated by sequence file scanner with weird scan range length

tarmstrong@tarmstrong-box:~/Impala/incubator-impala$ impala-shell.sh
Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication
Connected to localhost:21000
Server version: impalad version 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT DEBUG (build cec33fa0ae75392668273d40b5a1bc4bbd7e9e2e)
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Welcome to the Impala shell.
(Impala Shell v3.1.0-SNAPSHOT (cec33fa) built on Thu Jul 26 09:50:10 PDT 2018)

To see a summary of a query's progress that updates in real-time, run 'set
LIVE_PROGRESS=1;'.
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[localhost:21000] default> use tpch_seq_snap;
Query: use tpch_seq_snap
[localhost:21000] tpch_seq_snap> SET max_scan_range_length=5377;
MAX_SCAN_RANGE_LENGTH set to 5377
[localhost:21000] tpch_seq_snap> select count(*)
                               > from lineitem;
Query: select count(*)
from lineitem
Query submitted at: 2018-07-26 14:10:18 (Coordinator: http://tarmstrong-box:25000)
Query progress can be monitored at: http://tarmstrong-box:25000/query_plan?query_id=e9428efe173ad2f4:84b66bdb00000000

+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 5993651  |
+----------+
WARNINGS: SkipText: length is negative
Problem parsing file hdfs://localhost:20500/test-warehouse/tpch.lineitem_seq_snap/000000_0 at 36472193