I could reproduce it without any problems in a vm with a fresh Tumbleweed install several times. I changed absolutly nothing in the filesystem. i am at the moment not on suse anymore, due to this bug. Are you not able to reproduce this wihtin a VM? Should not be a problem, as i said it happens regardles of installation method, be it texlive-base via zypper, texlive tree selection in yast2 or the texlive full scheme from the website i mentioned. All of these option ON FRESH UNTOUCHED INSTALLTIONS of Tumbleweed result in the same error. When you use texlive-base via zypper you also have to fix the path error before this error appears. i could send you a vm image with this error if needed.