(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #17) > Nice debug work Ronan! > > Now up to finding why this would go wrong. > > filesystem does, it it's pre-install script: > > if not posix.stat("/var/run") then > posix.symlink("/run","/var/run") > end > > Which can only mean that when the installation happened, /var/run existed > already (otherwise it would have been symlinked) > > So the big question will be to find what was evil enough to create this > directory Hi Dominique, Thanks! I installed Tumbleweed again disabling NTP at installation (using the standard DVD) and the problem continues. Any new ideas?