I don't know if this has been reported before, soooo.... Here's a copy of what happened. Note that when I ran the command without the ~, it operated just fine.
[root@kcasep18 local]# mv include/php/ ~/include.php.old mv: basename.c:67: base_name: Assertion `all_slashes || *(p - 1) != '/'' failed. Aborted (core dumped) [root@kcasep18 local]# mv include/php/ /root/include.php.old this happened while in dir /usr/local running as user root. --version reports 4.0x