Power switch not working

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
> why, when I do "shutdown -h now" and then let the system come down to
> the point where it says "Press any key to reboot" pressing the power
> switch at that point no longer causes the system to actually power down.
> If fact it does nothing.

Others have talked about the power button, but the other option is to 
use "shutdown -p now".