My MacBook is stuck on "FileVault Disk Encryption"

Hello,
So yesterday I decided to upgrade to Yosemite on my 2013 13' MacBook pro 500gb 2.5GHz. And everything went well except when it got to the screen for filevault. Before i got to the filevault stage, everything went well and the computer successfully instaled Yosemite and rebooted. I logged into my icloud when it asked me to, then it went to the screen of the terms of conditions, and I agreed to it. But then it went to the FileVault stage, and I knew a little bit about what it was --to encrypt your data(whole hard drive)-- but I went with it and clicked enable Filevault. So after 30 minutes, it was still the same screen, and I checked afree 3 hours, and the sceeen was still the same. Now, after 15 hours, the screen is still the same. There isn't really anything on the Computer except for Microsoft office applications, and a few word documents. So nothing more than ~110gb of data used. What should I do? Should I turn my computer off?

Hi there. I'm having the same problem here on may 2010 17" inch Macbook Pro. I did the diagnistic test you mentioned, the information is below. Thanks in advance if you can help.
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *498.9 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 19D25380-09DE-4BAE-83E2-A0B376089439
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_HFSX Copias de Time Machine 2.0 TB     disk3s2
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 4048693C-AF1A-499A-963A-E77D520A6DA6
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         499248103424 B (499.2 GB)
    Free Space:   18972672 B (19.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 3D3F0F7E-0A73-4A7B-85F8-8F25BE2EB1AE
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     499248103424 B (499.2 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family DEEF8C49-2A61-48A5-A5E1-CC77C94B52CD
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Converting
        Conversion Direction:    forward
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 19D25380-09DE-4BAE-83E2-A0B376089439
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          498876809216 B (498.9 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Failed
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

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