Additional information: As a test, I installed the BDB packages of cyrus-sasl and had success: the issue is away. zypper rm cyrus-sasl-crammd5 cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-digestmd5 cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl zypper in cyrus-sasl-bdb-crammd5 cyrus-sasl-bdb-devel cyrus-sasl-bdb-digestmd5 cyrus-sasl-bdb-gssapi cyrus-sasl-bdb-plain cyrus-sasl-bdb