Reported in precice/systemtests#262.
The error is actually an "old friend": precice/precice#296.
Can be fixed following precice/precice#296 (comment)
My first careful guess is that this problem was probably reintroduced in f5de714#diff-929be0dcb483bab373f1c5874bd371ce15db5a655bf2cfafeecea32102bb7af4L11.