fail install of xfce desktop on odroidxu4

[dev001]

Using odroidxu4.
flashed Armbian_25.8.1_Odroidxu4_noble_current_6.6.102 to eMMC
After odroidxu4 started, followed instruction to create accounts etc.
Installed xfce4 package

reboot. odroidxu4 booted to console prompt
Installed xfce4-goodies package

reboot. odroidxu4 booted to console prompt
Installed lightdm

reboot. The system becomes stuck at plymouth-quit-wait.service/start

 

Not much I could do after this as I could not look at log messages or use $ sudo systemctl status lightdm.service

Any insight greatly appreciated

Thanks

[dev001]

Made some progress.

 

after installing Armbian_25.8.1_Odroidxu4_noble_current_6.6.102 to eMMC

ran armbian-upgrade

Installed xubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop-minimal package

reboot

now i'm getting the greeter screen.  after login, I entered xfce desktop. functions ok

could only install firefox via snap. installed firefox via snap

ran firefox to view a video on youtube.

audio is not working.

install pulseaudio

reboot system

audio still not working when viewing a youtube video

 

any suggestions?