Ansible Tower upgrade to 3.8 or 3.7 fails during awx-manage migrate task

Issue

• When upgrading from Ansible Tower 3.6.7 to Ansible Tower 3.7 the task awx-manage migrate fails
• When upgrading from Ansible Tower 3.6.7 to Ansible Tower 3.8 the task awx-manage migrate fails
• When upgrading Ansible Tower 3.6 the following task fails: [awx_install : Migrate the Tower database schema (may take awhile when upgrading).]
• When upgrading Ansible Tower 3.6 the following error involving the /usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py file is displayed at the awx-manage migrate --noinput task and the process is interrupted:

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": true, 
    "cmd": [
        "awx-manage", 
        "migrate", 
        "--noinput"
    ], 
    "delta": "0:00:05.691145", 
    "end": "[...]", 
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "_raw_params": "awx-manage migrate --noinput", 
            [...]
        }
    }, 
    "msg": "non-zero return code", 
    "rc": 1, 
    "start": "[...]", 
    "stderr": "[....]",                                                                                                                            
    "stderr_lines": [
        "Traceback (most recent call last):", 
        "  File \"/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py\", line 936, in emit", 
        "    self.socket.send(msg)", 
        "OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor", 
        "", 
        "During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:", 
        "", 
        "Traceback (most recent call last):", 
        "  File \"/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py\", line 857, in _connect_unixsocket", 
        "    self.socket.connect(address)", 
        "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", 
        "", 
        "During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:", 
        "", 
        "Traceback (most recent call last):", 
        "  File \"/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py\", line 939, in emit", 
        "    self._connect_unixsocket(self.address)", 
        "  File \"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/utils/handlers.py\", line 19, in _connect_unixsocket", 
        "    super(RSysLogHandler, self)._connect_unixsocket(address)", 
        "  File \"/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py\", line 868, in _connect_unixsocket", 
        "    self.socket.connect(address)", 
        "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", 
[...]
        "  File \"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/utils/handlers.py\", line 41, in handleError", 
        "    msg = '\\n'.join([msg, record.msg, ''])", 
        "TypeError: sequence item 1: expected str instance, __proxy__ found"
    ], 
    "stdout": "[...], 
    "stdout_lines": [
        "Operations to perform:", 
        "  Apply all migrations: auth, conf, contenttypes, main, oauth2_provider, sessions, sites, social_django, sso, taggit", 
        "Running migrations:", 
        "  Applying main.0120_galaxy_credentials..."
    ]
}