The Beamer class of pre-packaged TeX live 2016 does not work correctly under
openSUSE 42.3. 
~> rpm -qa | grep beamer
texlive-appendixnumberbeamer-2016.122.svn40322-118.5.noarch
texlive-appendixnumberbeamer-doc-2016.122.svn40322-118.5.noarch
texlive-beamerposter-2016.122.1.12svn37009-118.5.noarch
texlive-beamer-doc-2016.122.3.36svn36461-118.5.noarch
texlive-beamer-tut-pt-2016.122.svn15878-118.5.noarch
texlive-beamer-2016.122.3.36svn36461-118.5.noarch
texlive-beamerposter-doc-2016.122.1.12svn37009-118.5.noarch

Upon compilation with pdflatex there is a crash and the log file says:

--begin log file--
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/TeX Live for
opensuse.org) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2017.10.6)  16 NOV 2017 10:29
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**beamer_template_variante2.tex
(./beamer_template_variante2.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/03/31>
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 51 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamer.cls
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamerbasercs.sty
Package: beamerbasercs 2004/10/07 (rcs-revision 1.3)
)
Document Class: beamer 2005/10/23 cvs version 3.06 A class for typesetting pres
entations (rcs-revision 1.67)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamerbasemodes.sty
Package: beamerbasemodes 2004/12/09 (rcs-revision 1.21)
\beamer@tempbox=\box26
\beamer@tempcount=\count79
\c@beamerpauses=\count80

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamerbasedecode.sty
Package: beamerbasedecode 2005/05/09 (rcs-revision 1.18)
\beamer@slideinframe=\count81
\beamer@minimum=\count82
--end log file--

The beamer styles are apparently very old, i.e., from 2005?!