Enable to Start Cockpit

I followed these Running Cockpit — Cockpit Project instruction and I keep getting,

:~> sudo systemctl --now enable cockpit.socket

Job failed. See "journalctl -xe" for details.

:~> systemctl status cockpit.socket

× cockpit.socket - Cockpit Web Service Socket
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cockpit.socket; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: resources) since Thu 2025-05-29 01:11:00 MDT; 8h ago
 Invocation: be9a83852934497cbbbb3b1488f5cddf
   Triggers: ● cockpit.service
       Docs: man:cockpit-ws(8)
     Listen: [::]:9090 (Stream)
    Process: 14163 ExecStopPost=/bin/ln -snf inactive.issue /run/cockpit/issue (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 4ms

:~> journalctl -xe

May 29 01:10:55 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
May 29 01:10:55 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:auth): pam_kwallet5: Refusing to do anything for the root user
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: nasheayahu : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/nasheayahu ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl --now enable cockpit.socket
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by nasheayahu(uid=1000)
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:session): pam_kwallet5: we were already executed
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_close_session
May 29 01:11:00 studio-labserver sudo[14061]: pam_kwallet5(sudo:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred

What else do I need to do to make this work or other information you need to solve this?

Thanks!..

Cancel that, I did a reboot and it appears to have solved the problem.

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