Error: unable to connect to Podman socket illegal base64 data at input byte 372

[ThomasTheRhombus]

I am trying to follow the Podman Windows tutorial, but when I run the "podman run ubi8-micro date" I get the 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: knownhosts: C:\Users\thoma.ssh\known_hosts:3: illegal base64 data at input byte 372"

I have tried stopping and restarting the podman machine, but that did not resolve my issue. When I run the "podman system connection list" command, it shows the "podman-machine-default" and "podman-machine-default-root" machines.

I am brand new to podman and containers in general so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[starksm64]

I'm seeing a similar problem on macos:

starksm@Scotts-Mac-Studio /tmp % podman info
OS: darwin/arm64
provider: applehv
version: 5.3.1

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: knownhosts: /Users/starksm/.ssh/known_hosts:5: illegal base64 data at input byte 7
starksm@Scotts-Mac-Studio /tmp % sw_vers
ProductName:		macOS
ProductVersion:		15.1.1
BuildVersion:		24B91

A podman machine was created and started from the podman desktop, Version 1.15.0

I can run a container and connect to the running machine instance from within the desktop, but not a terminal window.