I tried a new install with openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20191104-Media.iso As before, this result in failures because required users/groups did not exist. Following the suggestion in comment #3, I then repeated the install. But this time I stopped "nscd" before the install systemctl stop nscd.service This gave a mostly good install. I got a couple of errors near the end of the install, about a failure to access repos. This was after most of the install, and probably related to setup up the repos for the installed system. I ignored the errors, and the installed system booted without problems.