Error Installing Ubuntu : Segmentation Fault

[Markus Schönhaber]

Brian McKee:

> Segmentation fault is a C program's way of saying 'I dunno what the
> heck to do - I'm quitting now!'

No. A segmentation fault is neither C specific nor does is signal the
program's lack of knowledge what to do next.
It rather means that the program tried to access some resource (most
likely a memory location) it isn't allowed to access and was therefore
prevented by the OS to do so.
The reasons why a segmentation fault may occur are plenty and range from
a bug in the program to faulty hardware (for example bad RAM).

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Regards
  mks