Well, it fails again when being run in docker: $ zypper info xindy Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package xindy: ------------------------------ Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss Name : xindy Version : 2.5.1-2.16 ... $ xindy --version xindy release: 2.5.1 xindy script version: 1.18 /usr/lib64/clisp-2.49.92/base/lisp.run: initialization file `/usr/lib64/xindy/xindy.mem' was not created by this version of CLISP runtime