What causes a Segmentation fault?

You just saw "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" or a message like "Unexpected Signal 11 ". Why? Short answer: it's most likely hardware unless you wrote the program or just now installed it on your machine.
If you are trying to install an OS from a CD, it could be that the people who created that OS are idiots, but it's much more likely that bad hardware is involved: bad media, a cheap cd burner, a faulty download, or the hardware you are installing on. It doesn't matter if that hardware has been running Windows flawlessly for years: it *still* may be bad hardware. If you insist that it isn't, and refuse to even contemplate that possibility, you might spend a lot of time chasing solutions that aren't going to help you one bit.
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