Please run those commands as root in a shell window and post the output here: zypper verify rpm -Va --nomode --nouser --nogroup --nomtime --nolinkto rpm -Va might take a while. This verifies all files of all installed packages with the MD5 sum that is stored in the RPM database. It is normal that a small number of files are listed as modified, in particular in /etc, /var or /run. For files that are listed, you can check what package they belong to with rpm -qf /full/path Any file below /usr that shows a verify error might be a problem. You can force reinstallation of a package with zypper in -f pkgname Even if you manage to fix your problem with that, please let us know what became of this.