Cockpit installation failed

laptop n°2-on my laptop TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro fresh upgraded from LEAP 15.6 KDE to leap 16.0
ssd disk=2Tb, CPU= Intel Core i7-8565U, RAM=32Gb, GPU=Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) Driver: “i915”;
boot=tri boot (leap 15.5, leap 16.0, windows 10)

I successfully upgraded from 15.6 to 16.0 via
opensuse-migration-tool version 20260204.2cf77a3-lp156.25.1
running sudo LANG=C opensuse-migration-tool
selecting:
selinux
20_ia32
boot is ok, grub keeped all the entries

I tried to install cockpit but failed
Installation steps
Install Cockpit

sudo zypper in -t pattern cockpit

then Enable Cockpit

systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Open the firewall if necessary (not needed for administration of local machine but for accessing remote systems)

output produce this error

pla@localhost:~> systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/cockpit.socket' -> '/usr/lib/systemd/system/cockpit.socket'.
Job failed. See "journalctl -xe" for details.
pla@localhost:~> 

I tried to read journalctl -xe

pla@localhost:~> su -
Password: 
localhost:~ # journalctl -xe
Feb 27 17:19:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 0.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit user@0.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit user@0.service has finished successfully.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 11012.
Feb 27 17:19:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[21044]: Startup finished in 458ms.
░░ Subject: User manager start-up is now complete
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ The user manager instance for user 0 has been started. All services queued
░░ for starting have been started. Note that other services might still be starting
░░ up or be started at any later time.
░░ 
░░ Startup of the manager took 458196 microseconds.
Feb 27 17:19:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Session c1 of User root.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit session-c1.scope has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit session-c1.scope has finished successfully.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 11196.
Feb 27 17:19:52 localhost.localdomain su[21014]: pam_unix(su-l:s

tried to open firewall

pla@localhost:~> firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=cockpit
Warning: ALREADY_ENABLED: cockpit
success
pla@localhost:~> firewall-cmd --reload
success
pla@localhost:~> 

tried again with firefox https://localhost:9090
but nothing
how can I have cockpit working?

You are really late to the party. This issue was detected long time ago.

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242179

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manythanks it works now

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