Gnome automount and media.repo under Oracle Linux 6.3

Hello,
I experiencing a strange behavior testing the following under Oracle Linux 6.3 (x86-64-bit) UEK2 with all latest updates. I selected the Gnome desktop packages using the "customize now" ratio button when installing the OS
* Log in to a graphical shell such as GNOME
* Insert addition media disk into the computer
* Observe the media is mounted by the session
* Wait a couple of seconds
* Observe the /etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo now exists
The above is explained in more details at http://people.redhat.com/rhughes/media-repo.txt
I don't know what the "addition media disk" is, but inserted the Oracle Linux 6.3 x86_64 binary distribution DVD, which also has media.repo file in the root directory. And btw, I'm using VirtualBox and the DVD is an .iso disk image.
I'm experiencing the following:
Gnome automount works and automatically opens the DVD when inserted.
It does not create the /etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo file.
It actually does create the named repo file, but only after one waits about 15 minutes. Perhaps this has anything to do with gpk-update-icon, but when run manually it hangs.
With the packagekit-media.repo file finally created. The gpk-application however complains: "The group list was invalid".
I know how to create a yum configuration file pointing to a local repository, which is also coverd in the Oracle Linux 6.3 distribution readme. I just wonder about the problem. Th automatic business with the media.repo file seems broken and useless. I did one more test using the original RHEL kernel which, as expected, did not make a difference.
Does anyone know more about it?
Thanks!

I cannot create an SR, but I did some more tests creating my own DVD, playing with the info in the media.repo file. It seems matching the mediaid and .discinfo information alone doesn't fix it.
Actually some of the stuff is explained in the link I already used: http://people.redhat.com/rhughes/media-repo.txt. The problem seems that it doesn't work as advertised.
It takes exactly 15 min. before the system (gnome) automatically copies the media.repo file from DVD to /etc/packagekit-media.repo. If the file already exists it gets overwritten.
I think it might be a good idea to make an entry in the media.repo file on the DVD, such as:
baseurl=file:///media/<disklabel>
skip_if_unavailable=True
Then when inserting the DVD under gnome it would not be necessary to create a yum repository configuration file to use the DVD. The 15 min. delay will have to be fixed, which is only supposed to take a couple of seconds.
Edited by: Dude on Aug 27, 2012 5:51 PM

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