This problem drove me crazy for 2 weeks on and off. I have finally found
out what the problem is and I registered just to share my conclusion to
help others because this is a very misleading error to a lot of us.
I have 2 laptops and I tried to install BackTrack, BackBox, Ubuntu,
etc.. all failed
Public bug reported:
given text input from file as:
1,
020,0xf123456abaff123a, ...
while(!feof(pat)){
fscanf(pat," %llu%*[ ,\n]",&conv); // should convert decimal, octal, or hex
notation, but this is not the case...chokes on 'x'
using %llx does convert hex, but converts everything else as