podman not connecting/working anymore (maybe due to macos update)

[thasmo]

After updating MacOS to 14.2.1 on an M2 MacBook yesterday, it occurs that podman seems to have trouble starting and connecting to the local machine since today:

podman machine init
Extracting compressed file: podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-39.20231204.2.1-qemu.aarch64.qcow2 [==============>------------------------------------------] 163.8MiB / 609.9MiB

podman machine start
Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Waiting for VM ...

podman machine start runs indefinitely, had to kill it with ctrl+c.

podman machine list
NAME                     VM TYPE     CREATED         LAST UP     CPUS        MEMORY      DISK SIZE
podman-machine-default*  qemu        11 minutes ago  Never       5           2GiB        100GiB

podman system connection list
Name                         URI                                                         Identity                                   Default
podman-machine-default       ssh://[email protected]:49818/run/user/501/podman/podman.sock  /Users/thasmo/.ssh/podman-machine-default  true
podman-machine-default-root  ssh://[email protected]:49818/run/podman/podman.sock           /Users/thasmo/.ssh/podman-machine-default  false

podman image list
Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:49818: connect: connection refused

podman volume list
Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:49818: connect: connection refused

podman system prune --all --force
Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:49818: connect: connection refused

podman -v
podman version 4.8.2

Is this a known isssue? Can I somehow fix or work around it?

Thanks!

[yangboroy]

Please help to check #21088, is it your question?

[thasmo]

Yep, thanks. I fixed it via #21088 (comment)