^C => assertion failed in sigproc.cc

[Max Bowsher]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> If I press ^C during a "make" or even a simple bash script I usually
> get lots of (this is fairly 'new', never seen them before):
>
> assertion "!wait_sig_inited" failed: file
> "/netrel/src/cygwin-1.3.17-1/winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc", line 538
>
> I see also that "uname -a" says me its 1.3.17, strangely... I
> installed
> 1.3.18 yesterday and, as always, I closed services and programs before
> doing it.
>
> (Robert, is that 'patch' to avoid 'putting files into the reboot
> queue' still in the CVS? can I compile myself a setup.exe that does
> have it? ^_^)

Current snapshot will respond to this command line option:
 -r --no-replaceonreboot  Disable replacing in-use files on next reboot.

NB this is a debug option. With it, setup will just fail to unpack the
relevant file. You may be better off inspecting the rename queue and
manually clearing it.

Max.