Unable to connect to Podman socket

[pironev]

Issue Description

I am using podman on MacOS Sequoia 15.1.1 Apple M1 Max.
OS: darwin/arm64
provider: applehv
version: 5.3.0

Running podman compose up I receive this error message:

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 read identity "~/.ssh/id_rsa_pv2": open ~/.ssh/id_rsa_pv2: no such file or directory

I remove and recreate podman-machine-default - the same result.
This file ~/.ssh/id_rsa_pv2 exists and can be read, but Podman reporting it doesn't.

Thank you

[Luap99]

Duplicate of #24567