Unable to start vsftpd.service on Centos9 Stream using Virtualbox

I'm unable to start the vsftpd.service. Here's the error I get when I try to start it

Job for vsftpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status vsftpd.service" and "journalctl -xeu vsftpd.service" for details.

This is the result of running

-xeu vsftpd.service

Jun 04 18:30:30 centos2 systemd: Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit vsftpd.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://access.redhat.com/support 
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit vsftpd.service has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 9077 and the job result is failed.

This is what I get when I run

systemctl status vsftpd.service

× vsftpd.service - Vsftpd ftp daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-06-04 18:33:30 EDT; 4min 22s ago
    Process: 49019 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 1ms

Jun 04 18:33:27 centos2 systemd: Starting Vsftpd ftp daemon...
Jun 04 18:33:30 centos2 systemd: vsftpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 04 18:33:30 centos2 systemd: vsftpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 18:33:30 centos2 systemd: Failed to start Vsftpd ftp daemon.

I have visited numerous forums and modified

/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

in several ways to no avail. Here is the current status of

/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

without the commented out lines

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
chown_uploads=YES
chown_username=fdin
xferlog_std_format=YES
chroot_local_user=YES
listen=YES

pam_service_name=ftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

Here is the result of doing

ss -tlpn | grep :21

LISTEN 0      32                 *:21              *:*    users:(("vsftpd",pid=47793,fd=3))