I've discovered that when startx fails to start and I'm telneted in from another machine when you su and become root you cannot get the shutdown -r now to work. The shutdown message looks normal but nothing happens. Top at this time shows about 97.2% because of the failed startx session. After the shutdown message displays top shows 2% cpu usage but the computer never restarts. It justs stays running. PS shows 2763 p0 S 0:00 su 2764 p0 S 0:00 bash 2783 p0 R 0:00 ps
Need more information. Is it the local or remote machine that you are having the failed startx on, and where are you issuing the the shutdown command from, the local machine or the remote?
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image/commit/123397b7a1bd9995adde39d211f0f1e2c9197b3a Merge pull request #365 from soltysh/issue308 Merged by openshift-bot