Lab 4.6 Install crictl : issue with starting crio.service

as I try to start crio.service the service does not start, prompting the following message:

sudo systemctl start crio.service
Job for crio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status crio.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

systemctl status crio.service
● crio.service - Container Runtime Interface for OCI (CRI-O)
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crio.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-12-28 19:21:48 UTC; 5s ago
Docs: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o
Process: 17113 ExecStart=/usr/bin/crio $CRIO_CONFIG_OPTIONS $CRIO_RUNTIME_OPTIONS $CRIO_STORAGE_OPTIONS $CRIO_NETWORK_OPTIONS $CRIO_METRICS_OPTIONS (code=ex

Main PID: 17113 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Therefore I am not able to get a successful response; once I do:

sudo crictl version

FATA[0002] connect: connect endpoint 'unix:///var/run/crio/crio.sock', make sure you are running as root and the endpoint has been started: context deadline exceeded

and even if I run as root I get the same issue

root@dev-node19:~# sudo crictl version
FATA[0002] connect: connect endpoint 'unix:///var/run/crio/crio.sock', make sure you are running as root and the endpoint has been started: context deadline exceeded

since we are using crio for lab exercises this is an important issue to address before continuing with the class... could someone help here?