AUCTeX, ESS, Noweb, and "Error running timer `font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay': (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)"

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The effect is to generate the error message:
Error running timer `font-latex-jit-lock-force-redisplay': (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 3)
or drop into the debugger with debug-on-error set to t.

Contents of file foo.Rnw:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
%%% Local Variables:
%%% eval: (ess-noweb-mode t)
%%% End:

Actions:
Position the cursor anywhere in the file.
Run the command "LaTeX-section".
Type a level or no level at all, and press enter.
Type a title or no title at all, and press enter.

Note: The "Rnw" file type makes the major mode be LaTeX and adds the polymode for Rnw minor mode. The motivation for turning on the ess-noweb-mode minor mode is to obtain the default bindings for knitr-ing and then pdflatex-ing the document.