Failed to add LSB provides name display-manager.service (journalctl -b)

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Hello forum,

I don’t know if we are to expect major boot problems after every kernel update.

So I have this system as shown in my signature. Today it won’t boot on my office’s computer. It did boot normally on my laptop this morning.

Some info: I have openSUSE 12.2 installed on my office’s computer too. But the difference is I had to install the nvidia driver for the office computer (otherwise it wouldn’t boot), while the openSUSE on my external drive didn’t need nvidia driver to run on the office computer. I have never understood why but I thought openSUSE on the external drive was so smart that it realized that it needs to be run on different computer so it automatically uses the driver that works for all.

However, I guess it’s the kernel update happened yesterday that caused it fails to run on the office computer now.

But I don’t think I should install an nvidia driver for it coz it needs to be run on different computers (as my laptop uses ATI driver)

Thank you for your advice in advance.

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I just get to my laptop and tried again and it boots normally. However with the same error in the boot log: Failed to add LSB provides name display-manager.service (journalctl -b)

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SORRY. My bad.

The problem has nth to do with kernel or display driver…

I manually added a drive of my laptop to be mounted automatically at start. The system couldn’t find that drive on my office’s computer.

So it refuses to boot up. I had thought that it would ignore that kind of error.

Edited the fstab now it boots normally.

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You can add “nofail” to the mount options in the fstab, then the system should ignore when it’s missing and just boot up normally…

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Thank you for the tip. Will do that.