I downloaded software Cocktail which is a disk utility with a lot of tools like force empty trash ( I bet many have that) and do disk utilities and set pemissions. Somehow I deleted Cocktail and that's when the problems of no reboot, no shut down, etc. began.
But being in some kind of fog, I couldn't connect the Cocktail with loss of permissions. The fog lifted and I reinsalled Cocktail and ran a restore program. It's a good program but don't play with it when your sleepy.
I learned more about the terminal of how to shut down:
Force shut down by typing in the terminal shell "sudo shutdown -h now" (thanks to Bruce Johnson)
To reboot, enter sudo reboot
Sudo stands for superuser that executes a sudoers file. Type man subject to open a manual page on subject. More info than Mac treminal help.
Unix for Mac OS X by O'reilly is good for a start (140 pages). Eric
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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