yum fails to reinstall/update the pam package with `error: failed to open dir run of /var/run/: Not a directory`

Issue

• yum transactions fail to extract pam

  # yum -y reinstall pam
  
  Dependencies resolved.
  ======================================================================================================================
   Package           Architecture         Version                     Repository                                   Size
  ======================================================================================================================
  Reinstalling:
   pam               x86_64               1.5.1-19.el9                rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms               631 k
  
  Transaction Summary
  ======================================================================================================================
  
  Total download size: 631 k
  Installed size: 1.8 M
  Downloading Packages:
  pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64.rpm                                                           913 kB/s | 631 kB     00:00
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Total                                                                                 911 kB/s | 631 kB     00:00
  Running transaction check
  Transaction check succeeded.
  Running transaction test
  Transaction test succeeded.
  Running transaction
    Preparing        :                                                                                              1/1
    Reinstalling     : pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64                                                                      1/2
  error: failed to open dir run of /var/run/: Not a directory
  
  Error unpacking rpm package pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64
    Verifying        : pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64                                                                      1/2
    Verifying        : pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64                                                                      2/2
  Installed products updated.
  
  Failed:
    pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64                                   pam-1.5.1-19.el9.x86_64
  
  Error: Transaction failed