Opensuse 10.3 Shutdown

I've finished loading openSUSE 10.3 and everything amazingly works, not to say there is something always wrong with the operating system it's usually me, so I'm all happy until I got to shutdown the machine and it blanks the screen then the music loops and the machine hangs up. So I rebooted using the switch on the front of the computer, and when I got in it worked fine then as I logged out it hung up again. So I went back in and logged in as me then read some stuff got a few ideas thought I would control-alt-backspace to log in as root and went to a black screen and froze.

:blink: Anyone have any solution? The system runs fine except I'm learning how to program and I need to boot from time to time and log in as root to install some things or do administrative stuff. This is my machine specs -

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.46
4 GB OCZ Ram
openSUSE 10.3 - Gnome
Radeon 3870 HD X2 PCI eXpress

p.s. if I can get past this I will load this on my laptop and then really be rock'n !!!!

so nobody has come across this situation? Now I'm having problems getting anything to work because I can't reboot the system so changes take affect partially......... <_<

I've finished loading openSUSE 10.3 and everything amazingly works, not to say there is something always wrong with the operating system it's usually me, so I'm all happy until I got to shutdown the machine and it blanks the screen then the music loops and the machine hangs up. So I rebooted using the switch on the front of the computer, and when I got in it worked fine then as I logged out it hung up again. So I went back in and logged in as me then read some stuff got a few ideas thought I would control-alt-backspace to log in as root and went to a black screen and froze.

:blink: Anyone have any solution? The system runs fine except I'm learning how to program and I need to boot from time to time and log in as root to install some things or do administrative stuff. This is my machine specs -

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.46
4 GB OCZ Ram
openSUSE 10.3 - Gnome
Radeon 3870 HD X2 PCI eXpress

p.s. if I can get past this I will load this on my laptop and then really be rock'n !!!!
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I have found that a Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D will give a prompt after Ctrl-Alt-Backspace if one does not appear within a reasonable time; something about line or process termination.