Created attachment 644234 [details]
output of journalctl -ab for openSUSE 12.3
Since the last release of openSUSE that worked correctly was openSUSE 12.3, so
I brought that system back up and ran journalctl -ab against it. You will see
that it set the hostname to the FQDN:
Aug 18 17:57:59 dg-linux.golden-consulting.com systemd[1]: Set hostname to
<dg-linux.golden-consulting.com>.