Leapp In-Place Upgrade Fails with "sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file"

Issue

• The in-place upgrade from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9 using leapp fails with the following error during the TargetTransactionFactsCollection phase:

   sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file
  

  And logs similar to:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/__init__.py", line 185, in run
  stdin=stdin, env=env, encoding=encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/call.py", line 199, in _call
  **extra
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/call.py", line 73, in _multiplex
  callback_linebuffered((fd, fd_type), pre)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/libraries/stdlib/__init__.py", line 143, in _logfile_logging_handler
  api.current_logger().debug(line)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1296, in debug
  self._log(DEBUG, msg, args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1444, in _log
  self.handle(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1454, in handle
  self.callHandlers(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1516, in callHandlers
  hdlr.handle(record)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/__init__.py", line 865, in handle
  self.emit(record)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/logger/__init__.py", line 40, in emit
  self._do_emit(log_data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/logger/__init__.py", line 45, in _do_emit
  Audit(**log_data).store()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/utils/audit/__init__.py", line 87, in store
  with get_connection(db) as connection:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/utils/audit/__init__.py", line 73, in get_connection
  return create_connection(cfg.get('database', 'path'))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/cli/commands/upgrade/util.py", line 26, in wrapper
  return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/utils/audit/__init__.py", line 60, in create_connection
  return _initialize_database(sqlite3.connect(path))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/leapp/utils/audit/__init__.py", line 27, in _initialize_database
  schema_version = db.execute('PRAGMA schema_version').fetchone()[0]
  sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file