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Resolving intermittent Fedora DNF error "No such file or directory: '/var/lib/dnf/rpmdb_lock.pid'"

For many of my Ansible playbooks and roles, I have CI tests which run over various distributions, including CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. Many of my Docker Hub images for Ansible testing include systemd so I can test services that are installed inside. For the most part, systemd-related issues are rare, but it seems with Fedora and DNF, I often encounter random test failures which invariably have an error message like:

No such file or directory: '/var/lib/dnf/rpmdb_lock.pid'

The full Ansible traceback is:

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