Comment 9 for bug 709649

To make a long story short, glxinfo (mesa-utils) is not installed or installable.

I burned another copy of the same (zsync verified) iso and used it for these tests. I avoided using the "nomce" kernel option in these tests.

It crashes differently each time I boot the CD. After selecting English and the boot to live CD option sometimes I get an oops or panic with or without 1 or two messages about the "no human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type".

About half the time it gets partially into the GUI. When it does it always gives a "it seems you do not have the hardware requirements to run unity" GUI popup and I click on "change user session".

At this point, the background bitmap comes up and I eventually get one or more "xyz closed unexpectedly" where xyz is one of:
compiz
unity-support-test
something about applet-service or similar

This particular time it was compiz and then unity-support test overwrote the compiz popup.

Sometimes a message comes up about hardware drivers, like it wants me to do System -> Administration -> Additional drivers and install closed source nvidia drivers instead of nouveau. Whatever I do with these messages, the desktop has no further things on it and it is not responsive.

This particular time, I left the GUI "xyz closed unexpectedly" messages sitting there and did ctrl-alt-f1 for a console where I immediately did sudo su.

glxinfo is not installed so I tried "apt-get install mesa-utils" and there is no installation candidate, even after "apt-get update".

I did a dmesg>dmesg.txt and the only way I found to get it off the box was to use mcopy to a floppy. scp to my local network kept saying "lost connection".

The dmesg shows CD errors although these CD's verify OK and I even boot my Maverick and run my standard script that uses find and dd to verify that every byte of every file on the CD is readable.

I tried this CD on two different machines, a 5 or 7 year old Compaq P2100 which exhibited similar issues (xyz closed unexpectedly once it got to the GUI) except it did not have the "no human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type" issue, and a Dell Dimension 8400 P4 which worked perfectly.