[arch-general] Computer blocking due to kernel <-> userspace incompatibility?

[ludovic coues]

look like an not-recognized-by-X keyboard. i've get some weird problem
like that when I've install X.

But maybe your cursor have already work. In this case, sorry for the
useless post.

2009/3/30, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
> RedShift schrieb:
>> Is it possible a computer gets stuck (not responding to keyboard, the
>> only way to bring it back alive is a hard reset) because of a
>> incompatibility between the kernel and userspace? The cursor is still
>> flickering though, that is what leads me to believe it's software crash,
>> not a hardware crash.
>>
>> This is the software in question:
>>
>> glibc 2.9-4
>> kernel-headers 2.6.27.6-2
>> kernel26 2.6.25.10-1
>
> If there was a problem, you should get "kernel too old" as soon as init
> is started. Our userspace should work with 2.6.16 and newer (some
> kernel-related things like udev might fail, but the binaries themselves
> should be able to execute).
>
> However, you can never rule out a bug that causes this, I am only
> stating what it _should_ support.
>
>