*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1065851 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065851
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1065851
shutdown now command does not work
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Does this still occur if you use 'sudo shutdown -h now' or 'sudo
shutdown -p now'? Shutdown just causes the OS to terminate from a user
perspective, either adding in a halt (-h), poweroff (-p) or --force
should cause both the physical machine and the OS to stop.
From the man pages of shutdown: