Hello
Setup is relativelly simple, there are two involved machines one which works as display/terminal, with X running etc and second where flashrom runs.
Inside xterm on first i have ssh to second, then screen and shell where i invoke flashrom (svn up done about hour ago)
if i do flashrom -p nic3com -V -E it will fail, (no matter if have -V or not) if i do flashrom -p nic3com -V -E >out 2>err it will work (and erase AT29C512 i have in socket)
also if i do sleep 3; flashrom -p nic3com -V -E and switch to second screen window on same machine it will work too.
I guess is that some delay inside printf routines during progress make problem.
I am reporting because Carl asked for report on irc.
best regards Maciej