On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva <alpharomeopapa@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ? No. > I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after > shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the > exit command for my window manager, and I have no idea how you might go > about doing it in a desktop env. You'd type the command in an xterm and press enter.