Why does podman exec fails with an error of session with ID already exists?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Podman exec intermittently fails
podman exec container_name
Error: an exec session with ID "xxxxxx" already exists: exec session already exists

Environment

  • OpenStack controllers
  • podman-3.0.1-10
  • RHEL 8

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