IllegalStateException Error when performing multisearch

Hello,
We perform a large number of Multisearch queries in our application and we occasionally see this error come back from Elasticsearch:

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Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Negative longs unsupported, use writeLong or writeZLong for negative numbers [-1077]
at org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput.writeVLong(StreamOutput.java:220)
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkResponse.writeTo(BulkResponse.java:149)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.buildMessage(TcpTransport.java:1219)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.sendResponse(TcpTransport.java:1172)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.sendResponse(TcpTransport.java:1154)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransportChannel.sendResponse(TcpTransportChannel.java:67)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransportChannel.sendResponse(TcpTransportChannel.java:61)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.DelegatingTransportChannel.sendResponse(DelegatingTransportChannel.java:60)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry$TransportChannelWrapper.sendResponse(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:108)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.HandledTransportAction$TransportHandler$1.onResponse(HandledTransportAction.java:68)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.HandledTransportAction$TransportHandler$1.onResponse(HandledTransportAction.java:64)
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction$BulkOperation$1.finishHim(TransportBulkAction.java:380)
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction$BulkOperation$1.onResponse(TransportBulkAction.java:361)
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction$BulkOperation$1.onResponse(TransportBulkAction.java:350)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:85)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$1.onResponse(TransportAction.java:81)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$ReroutePhase.finishOnSuccess(TransportReplicationAction.java:936)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$ReroutePhase$1.handleResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:846)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$ReroutePhase$1.handleResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:832)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$ContextRestoreResponseHandler.handleResponse(TransportService.java:1062)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$DirectResponseChannel.processResponse(TransportService.java:1136)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$DirectResponseChannel.sendResponse(TransportService.java:1126)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$DirectResponseChannel.sendResponse(TransportService.java:1115)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.DelegatingTransportChannel.sendResponse(DelegatingTransportChannel.java:60)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry$TransportChannelWrapper.sendResponse(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:108)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction$2.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:400)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction$2.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:378)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryResult.respond(TransportReplicationAction.java:465)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportWriteAction$WritePrimaryResult.respondIfPossible(TransportWriteAction.java:176)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportWriteAction$WritePrimaryResult.respond(TransportWriteAction.java:167)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.lambda$onResponse$0(TransportReplicationAction.java:356)
at org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener$1.onResponse(ActionListener.java:59)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.ReplicationOperation.finish(ReplicationOperation.java:268)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.ReplicationOperation.decPendingAndFinishIfNeeded(ReplicationOperation.java:249)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.ReplicationOperation.execute(ReplicationOperation.java:126)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:358)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:298)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$1.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:974)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$1.onResponse(TransportReplicationAction.java:971)
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShardOperationPermits.acquire(IndexShardOperationPermits.java:238)
at org.elasticsearch.index.shard.IndexShard.acquirePrimaryOperationPermit(IndexShard.java:2188)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction.acquirePrimaryShardReference(TransportReplicationAction.java:983)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction.access$500(TransportReplicationAction.java:97)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$AsyncPrimaryAction.doRun(TransportReplicationAction.java:319)
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:294)
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportReplicationAction$PrimaryOperationTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportReplicationAction.java:281)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry.processMessageReceived(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:66)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$7.doRun(TransportService.java:659)
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:638)
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
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We see this with Elasticsearch 6.0. I have found similar issues on Github but none that have the error originating in the same area of code as this. What could causes this error? Right now it only happens on one server which is a single node Elasticsearch installation with no replicas or shards for the index that is being searched. Have we encountered a bug?

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