>Alt-Ctrl F2 or F4 (or any F Key) gives me a login box
>
>My local username is recognised but neither "halt" "reboot" "restart"
>works Exit or Quit will log out of that username, but I don't have any
>way of  then getting rid of that black screen ??

Press Ctrl-Alt-F7 and you are back in X.


>trying to login as root won't work.
>doesn't recognise username/password :(

This probably has to do with a higher security setting of your machine.
That prevents root from logging in directly.

Best way to go about then is:
open an xterm
become root (type su and enter root password)
then type halt or reboot

Paul

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