TYPO3 Core

After running the install tool, the introduction package is not installed (shows white page), backend does not show any pages;
this is NOT related to issue 0015780 reporting the same symptoms, because I just installed php5-zlib, which did not help; php -r 'guncompress();' does not complain about undefined function;
the procedure described in http://limmer-linux.eu/tutorial_web/tutorial.html helps to some extent (BE now has pages in tree, but they are still shown as white pages);
all files are owned by UNIX user (wwwrun:www) who runs apache, so probably no access problem on OS level;
user on MySQL-level has full privileges on the database.
running on openSUSE 11.3, MySQL 5.1.46

Same behavour with Typo3 4.4.2.

This is a very annoying behaviour, at least for newcomers like me who just want to have a look and have to (unsuccessfully) spend days to see the first "Hello World".

1. DEBUG SYSTEM INFORMATION - START ###
   HTTP_HOST : linux.bettge.com
   TYPO3_HOST_ONLY : linux.bettge.com
   TYPO3_PORT :
   PATH_INFO :
   QUERY_STRING : TYPO3_INSTALL[type]=phpinfo
   REQUEST_URI : /typo3/typo3/install/index.php?TYPO3_INSTALL[type]=phpinfo
   HTTP_REFERER : http://linux.bettge.com/typo3/typo3/install/index.php?TYPO3_INSTALL[type]=database&TYPO3_INSTALL[database_type]=cmpFile|CURRENT_TABLES
   TYPO3_REQUEST_HOST : http://linux.bettge.com
   TYPO3_REQUEST_URL : http://linux.bettge.com/typo3/typo3/install/index.php?TYPO3_INSTALL[type]=phpinfo
   TYPO3_REQUEST_SCRIPT: http://linux.bettge.com/typo3/typo3/install/index.php
   TYPO3_REQUEST_DIR : http://linux.bettge.com/typo3/typo3/install/
   TYPO3_SITE_URL : http://linux.bettge.com/typo3/
   TYPO3_SITE_SCRIPT : typo3/install/index.php?TYPO3_INSTALL[type]=phpinfo
   TYPO3_SSL :
   TYPO3_REV_PROXY :
   SCRIPT_NAME : /typo3/typo3/install/index.php
   TYPO3_DOCUMENT_ROOT : /srv/www/htdocs
   SCRIPT_FILENAME : /srv/www/htdocs/typo3/typo3/install/index.php
   REMOTE_ADDR : 192.168.0.11
   REMOTE_HOST :
   HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
   HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
   CONST: PHP_OS : Linux
   CONST: TYPO3_OS :
   CONST: PATH_thisScri: /srv/www/htdocs/typo3/typo3/install/index.php
   CONST: php_sapi_name: apache2handler
   OTHER: TYPO3_VERSION: 4.5.0alpha2
   OTHER: PHP_VERSION : 5.3.3
   imagecreatefromgif(): 1
   imagecreatefrompng(): 1
   imagecreatefromjpeg(: 1
   imagegif() : 1
   imagepng() : 1
   imagejpeg() : 1
   imagettftext() : 1
   OTHER: IMAGE_TYPES : 31
   OTHER: memory_limit : 128M
   SERVER: SERVER_PORT : 80
   SERVER: SERVER_SOFTW: Apache/2.2.15 (Linux/SUSE)
   SERVER: GATEWAY_INTE: CGI/1.1
   SERVER: SCRIPT_NAME : /typo3/typo3/install/index.php
   SERVER: PATH_TRANSLA:
   T3CV_GFX: image_proc: 1
   T3CV_GFX: gdlib : 1
   T3CV_GFX: gdlib_png : 1
   T3CV_GFX: im : 1
   T3CV_GFX: im_path : /usr/bin/
   T3CV_GFX: im_path_lz:
   T3CV_GFX: im_version: im6
   T3CV_GFX: im_negate_: 0
   T3CV_GFX: im_imvMask: 1
   T3CV_GFX: im_combine: composite
2. DEBUG SYSTEM INFORMATION - END ###
   (issue imported from #M15964)