I should mention that I ran this test on Ubuntu-22.04, which is a solid platform for running current versions of CryoSPARC, but could have played a role in the failure with the older CryoSPARC version. Other users on the forum ran into issues installing older CryoSPARC versions on Ubuntu-22.04: Worker connect does not work during installation? - #12 by ZhijieLi.
Sounds reasonable to me.