Shutdown button takes good time on shutting down PC

[Colin Law]

2009/12/11 David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <ethnopunk at telkomsa.net>:
>
>..
>
> This is sort of a related problem. When I issue shutdown command in
> terminal
>
> shutdown now
>
> or
>
> shutdown now -P
>
> my machine reboots into the fix system mode & doesn'tshutdown
>
> how can I stop this?
>

That should be
shutdown -P now
or depending on context
sudo shutdown -P now

Colin