I was able to fix this problem on a MacBook Pro 4,1 with a GeForce 8600M GT by
following these instructions:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2209602
In this case, installing the current version of Ubuntu (16.04.1) via USB
with a GUID partition table was not a problem.
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I encounter the same error when formatting a drive and adding a
partition, using the default options. Occasionally the program will
simply crash without displaying an error message.
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