Shutdown now not shutting my computer down now (or ever).

I'm switching to FVWM, and I got rid of KDM and haven't bothered to replace it with anything. When I try to turn off my computer by using shutdown now things seem to go okay and then I get this:
Entering single-user mode. . . .
INIT: Going single user
Give root password for maintenance
(or type control-D to continue):
If I hit control-D, the system restarts Arch.
If I give the root password and then issue shutdown now again within the maintenance mode I get:
Switching to runlevel: 1
INIT: Sending processes started by init the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes started by init the KILL signal
: no more processes left on this run level
And then it displays that until I turn the computer off by holding down the power key. Any ideas?

1. you need to have some privileges to shutdown the computer. You can use sudo for example, and run
sudo shutdown
to shutdown your computer.
2. Your computer shut down properly since no processes are left. What you are looking for (if I understood right) is that the computer turns off automatically. I think there is something to activate in the kernel (but it should be already activated if you are using the arch or beyond kernel): the Power Management, and ACPI.

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Solved!
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# Description:       Things added by Mihai for shutdown.
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