podman: podman rootless example fails

Trying to run the example code from the Fedora magazine article fails: https://fedoramagazine.org/running-containers-with-podman/

$ sudo dnf install podman
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Installed:
  podman-1:1.0.0-1.git82e8011.fc29.x86_64             criu-3.11-1.fc29.x86_64                                   fuse-overlayfs-0.3-1.dev.git6d269aa.fc29.x86_64   slirp4netns-0.1-2.dev.git0037042.fc29.x86_64     
  container-selinux-2:2.80-1.git1b655d9.fc29.noarch   containers-common-1:0.1.34-1.dev.gite96a9b0.fc29.x86_64   runc-2:1.0.0-67.dev.git12f6a99.fc29.x86_64        containernetworking-plugins-0.7.3-2.fc29.x86_64  
  fuse3-libs-3.2.3-14.fc29.x86_64                     libnet-1.1.6-16.fc29.x86_64                              

Complete!
$ podman --log-level debug run --rm -it fedora:29 echo "Hello world!"
INFO[0000] running as rootless                          
DEBU[0000] Initializing boltdb state at /home/hadess/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod/bolt_state.db 
DEBU[0000] Using graph driver overlay                   
DEBU[0000] Using graph root /home/hadess/.local/share/containers/storage 
DEBU[0000] Using run root /run/user/1000                
DEBU[0000] Using static dir /home/hadess/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod 
DEBU[0000] Using tmp dir /run/user/1000/libpod/tmp      
DEBU[0000] Set libpod namespace to ""                   
DEBU[0000] Not configuring container store              
ERRO[0000] error creating libpod runtime: exit status 1