[sles-beta] Beta 2 installation notes

[Joe Doupnik]

     I am working my way through my previous items, not having much luck 
but some progress.
     Let me choose IPtables at this moment. We seem to have yet another 
change where ip_nat and similar are now named nf_nat etc. My IPtables 
start/stop script ran into more difficulty as it references fail2ban. 
Fail2ban declined to start and its server parts are installed in 
/usr/bin rather than normal /usr/local/bin. Could we put back the 
/usr/local usage? I avoid mixing vendor and self-complied material.
     I dug into fail2ban not starting. It seems to be related to the 
changes from Python 2.7 to 3.x. To get round that I used the latest 
source tarball of fail2ban and that worked.
     In the middle of this one sinks into the systemd material, with 
little hope of returning alive. IPtables? It never heard of it. Luckily 
my regular start/stop script (/etc/init.d/iptables) works with that 
change of ip_ to nf_  and referencing fail2ban in /usr/bin.
     On the GUI. I had both SLES and SLED screens open. For awhile SLES 
presented the plain screen and SLED the more elaborate one. As I worked 
on the systems the SLES system started behaving like SLED. I have no 
idea why, perhaps it is just me. That means my earlier comments on the 
SLED GUI apply to SLES as well.
     Clearly a lot remains to be done on the GUI. As commented, I see 
hope for the return of a usable GUI. For that I thank you.
     Networking. One regular Ethernet adapter, running SLES/D as an ESXi 
virtual. Beta 1 allowed one to remove the unwanted ensxxx adapter name 
and revert to ethN. Beta2 does not, and most of the YaST networking 
material is non-functional. Trying to change the name in systemd has met 
with total failure, and the failure is due to the byzantine design of 
systemd rather than the system manager person. Yes, we know you have to 
be industry compatible as well as be customer pleasing, so please could 
we have sysVinit back as a choice (a la OpenSUSE). To be candid, the 
systemd mess would normally drive me away, it still might, but I am 
waiting to see how it and my education turn out.  Clarity (what is 
available), simple manipulation (start/stop/status etc) per service, use 
of many existing scripts are my primary concerns in keeping systems 
going long term.
     Thanks,
     Joe D.

On 10/03/2014 13:35, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le samedi 08 mars 2014 à 17:56 +0000, Joe Doupnik a écrit :
>
>>       For SLES the GUI is still like beta 1, so no progress there.
> if you mean the installer, yes, theming fixes couldn't make it for
> Beta2, they will be in Beta3.
>
>>       Again for SLES, it now seems that we cannot change the name of the
>> Ethernet adapter via YaST. That defeats my network scripts.
> Network renaming isn't working in Beta2, it will be fixed in Beta3.
>
>>       Also, installing Python app fail2ban now puts things into /usr/bin
>> rather than /usr/local/bin. I do not see where this change could have
>> occurred. The installation step is "python setup.py install" and the
>> particular fail2ban code is from my often used collection.
> Could you open a service request for this issue ?
>
> Thanks !
>