Unable to start minikube on Mac M1 with docker

I'm trying to start minikube on a Mac M1 (macOs Monterey V12.0.1) after installing minikube with homebrew (brew install minikube) but I am getting an error after running minikube start.

The error in the logs is this one:

💢  initialization failed, will try again: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml  --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
    [WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
    [WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
    [ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with `--ignore-preflight-errors=...`
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher


💣  Error starting cluster: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml  --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
    [WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
    [WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
    [ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with `--ignore-preflight-errors=...`
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher


╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
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│    😿  If the above advice does not help, please let us know:                             │
│    👉  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose                           │
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│    Please run `minikube logs --file=logs.txt` and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue.    │
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╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

❌  Exiting due to GUEST_START: wait: /bin/bash -c "sudo env PATH="/var/lib/minikube/binaries/v1.22.3:$PATH" kubeadm init --config /var/tmp/minikube/kubeadm.yaml  --ignore-preflight-errors=DirAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube,DirAvailable--var-lib-minikube-etcd,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-scheduler.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-apiserver.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-kube-controller-manager.yaml,FileAvailable--etc-kubernetes-manifests-etcd.yaml,Port-10250,Swap,Mem,SystemVerification,FileContent--proc-sys-net-bridge-bridge-nf-call-iptables": Process exited with status 1
stdout:
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.22.3
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks

stderr:
    [WARNING Swap]: running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap
    [WARNING Service-Kubelet]: kubelet service is not enabled, please run 'systemctl enable kubelet.service'
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
    [ERROR KubeletVersion]: couldn't get kubelet version: cannot execute 'kubelet --version': exit status 255
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with `--ignore-preflight-errors=...`
To see the stack trace of this error execute with --v=5 or higher


╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                           │
│    😿  If the above advice does not help, please let us know:                             │
│    👉  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose                           │
│                                                                                           │
│    Please run `minikube logs --file=logs.txt` and attach logs.txt to the GitHub issue.    │
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╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

I have tried enabling kubelet.service by running sysctl enable kubelet.service but didn't change anything. I have also kubeclt version 1.22 installed.

I was able to find the solution to my problem, although, I'm not really sure what was the main issue, it seems that it was related to old configurations in the .minikube folder in the users' home directory.

To fix it, first I had to enabled Kubernetes in docker desktop, and then I had to stop and delete minikube cluster, and finally delete the directory. Then running the command again was successful.

To fix:

$ minikube stop
$ minikube delete
$ rm -rf ~/.minikube/
$ minikube start

😄  minikube v1.24.0 on Darwin 12.0.1 (arm64)
✨  Automatically selected the docker driver
👍  Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🚜  Pulling base image ...
🔥  Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=1988MB) ...
    > kubectl.sha256: 64 B / 64 B [--------------------------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
    > kubelet.sha256: 64 B / 64 B [--------------------------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
    > kubeadm.sha256: 64 B / 64 B [--------------------------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
    > kubeadm: 40.50 MiB / 40.50 MiB [-------------] 100.00% 29.75 MiB p/s 1.6s
    > kubectl: 41.44 MiB / 41.44 MiB [-------------] 100.00% 21.39 MiB p/s 2.1s
    > kubelet: 107.26 MiB / 107.26 MiB [-----------] 100.00% 27.70 MiB p/s 4.1s

    ▪ Generating certificates and keys ...
    ▪ Booting up control plane ...
    ▪ Configuring RBAC rules ...
🔎  Verifying Kubernetes components...
    ▪ Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
🌟  Enabled addons: storage-provisioner, default-storageclass
🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default