Turn off (wireless key n mouse)

[doddy1985]

I'm having no trouble booting the board. I am currently using the board with a wireless key n mouse combo (logitek mk 330 as recommended on another post). This works great for me. I haven't had a chance to do anything cool with the board yet but was really just getting my fan and case in place and making sure everything was working okay.

So i wanted to graciously power down just doing from command line:

sudo shutdown -h now

I get the display showing something like 'system will shutdown now'. As I recall i just have to hit return key or wait and ubuntu turns itself off. I waited a while (and tried hitting return key a couple times) but the board never fulled turned off as the display showed the same 'system will shutdown now'.

I eventually just switched my power off but I didn't want to get into the habit of just removing power to the board while the OS is running. Is this possibly a problem with power getting to the USB port (I'm using the one next to hdmi out) when shutting down? Therefore I can't do anything with keyboard? Should I just keep waiting for power off? Or is it okay just to hit the power switch?

I want to treat me new friend nicely so it'll live with me a while
Any suggestions/recommendations welcome! Thanks!

[tnt]

The board can't shutdown it's own power, there is no power switch so it's always on.
Just do a shutdown / halt and when it display the final 'power off' message (don't remember the wording), just cut the power.

[e-rod]

To avoid having to unplug it from the wall each time, which can be annoying, I recommend an in-line power switch. I got mine from Adafruit: . It's just like one you'd see on a lamp.