Some RPMs fail to install in a RHEL7 docker container with cpio errors

Issue

Some packages fail to install, with yum throwing a cpio error. For example:

# yum install pki-server
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package pki-server.noarch 0:10.0.5-3.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package             Arch            Version                  Repository                   Size
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Installing:
 pki-server          noarch          10.0.5-3.el7             rhel-7-server-rpms          2.7 M

Transaction Summary
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Install  1 Package

Total download size: 2.7 M
Installed size: 3.9 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
pki-server-10.0.5-3.el7.noarch.rpm                                       | 2.7 MB  00:00:01     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : pki-server-10.0.5-3.el7.noarch                                               1/1 
Error unpacking rpm package pki-server-10.0.5-3.el7.noarch
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/lock/pki: cpio: mkdir
  Verifying  : pki-server-10.0.5-3.el7.noarch                                               1/1 

Failed:
  pki-server.noarch 0:10.0.5-3.el7                                                              

Complete!