Problem :
I wrote sudo shutdown now on my ubuntu VM terminal and the results were not what i expected. I expected results similar to shutting down through the desktop GUI but instead it shut down rather quickly and brought me to a recovery prompt (i think it was apache’s, maybe not) and started up again.
How do i shutdown the way i am expecting through the terminal?
Solution :
halt will do what you’re looking to do.
sudo halt
Otherwise I believe you wanted to do
sudo shutdown -h now
Try
sudo shutdown -h now