docker is showing errors during livliness probes indicating connection reset by peer

Issue

• Kubernetes liveliness probes are failing
• The following errors in /var/log/messages:

level=error msg="Error running exec in container: rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused \"process_linux.go:110: decoding init error from pipe caused \\\"read parent: connection reset by peer\\\"\"\n"