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.

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Title:
  unity_support_test crashed with SIGSEGV in
  nux::IOpenGLAsmVertexShader::IOpenGLAsmVertexShader()

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