[Bug Report] Fresh install Snapshot 20260628: Black KDE desktop after first update + keyboard layout resets to EN on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4
Hey everyone,
I've been testing openSUSE Tumbleweed fresh installations and found two reproducible bugs with Snapshot 20260628 on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 hardware. Posting here because it might save others some headaches.
Hardware:
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 (20FB003VGE)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-6200U (Skylake-U)
- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 520 (integrated)
- RAM: 8 GB DDR3
- Storage: 256 GB M.2 PCIe
ISO used:openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20260628-Media
Installation settings:
- KDE Plasma Desktop
- Default partitioning (Btrfs)
- Language/keyboard: German (DE) throughout
Bug 1: Keyboard layout silently resets to English after installation
During installation everything is set to German. After the first reboot to the login screen, the keyboard layout has switched back to English (US) without warning. Login fails immediately because special characters are mapped differently. You have to manually switch the layout at the login screen to get in.
Bug 2: Black KDE desktop after first update + reboot
After logging in, changing the keyboard layout back to German, installing all available updates and rebooting:
- Desktop is completely black
- Taskbar/panel is gone
- Desktop widgets are gone
- Right-click context menu still works (so the session IS running)
- WLAN drops and doesn't reconnect automatically
Reproducibility:
✅ Reproduced on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 #1 (20FB003VGE, i5-6200U)
✅ Reproduced on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4 #2 (same model, same specs)
✅ Same symptom pattern on ThinkPad T490s (i5-8265U, Whiskey Lake-U)
❌ NOT affected: existing TW installation on identical X1 Carbon Gen 4 hardware, running continuously for ~1 year with 6000+ updates – boots and runs perfectly fine
This strongly suggests the issue is specific to fresh installations with the current snapshot, not the hardware itself.
Workaround so far:
None found. Rolled back to alternative distros on affected machines.
Anyone else seeing this? Is there already a Bugzilla entry for this? Happy to provide additional logs if someone can point me to what's needed.