Sounds like that shutdown the system, so the problem is just getting it to power off. You could try "halt -p”. That explicitly calls for the system to power off. If that doesn't work, perhaps try "halt -verbose", which will give a bunch of info on the next boot about what halt was doing, might show an error there that could you lead you in the right direction.
mantra
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Did you use any arguments with shutdown? Does shutdown spin down the system, but not turn off the hardware, or does it not do anything? You can try " shutdown now -h". That should halt the system after a graceful shutdown.
I would think it should be in the boot log, but I am unsure on that one.