pants: Generating lockfiles fails with: unknown error (_ssl.c:3161)

Describe the bug When trying to generate lockfiles command fails with the following error: Failed to spawn a job for /home/manos/Workspace/pants-repo/.conda/bin/python3.9: unknown error (_ssl.c:3161)

pants --print-stacktrace -ldebug generate-lockfiles ::
18:15:17.57 [INFO] Initialization options changed: reinitializing scheduler...
18:15:22.39 [INFO] Scheduler initialized.
18:15:23.84 [INFO] Completed: Generate lockfile for python-default
18:15:23.84 [ERROR] 1 Exception encountered:

Engine traceback:
  in select
    ..
  in pants.core.goals.generate_lockfiles.generate_lockfiles_goal
    `generate-lockfiles` goal

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/engine/internals/selectors.py", line 626, in native_engine_generator_send
    res = rule.send(arg) if err is None else rule.throw(throw or err)
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/core/goals/generate_lockfiles.py", line 557, in generate_lockfiles_goal
    results = await MultiGet(
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/engine/internals/selectors.py", line 361, in MultiGet
    return await _MultiGet(tuple(__arg0))
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/engine/internals/selectors.py", line 168, in __await__
    result = yield self.gets
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/engine/internals/selectors.py", line 626, in native_engine_generator_send
    res = rule.send(arg) if err is None else rule.throw(throw or err)
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/backend/python/goals/lockfile.py", line 110, in generate_lockfile
    result = await Get(
  File "/home/manos/.cache/nce/3d6643e46b53e4cc0b2a0d5c768866226ddce3de1f57f80c4a02d8d39800fa8e/bindings/venvs/2.18.0/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pants/engine/internals/selectors.py", line 118, in __await__
    result = yield self
pants.engine.process.ProcessExecutionFailure: Process 'Generate lockfile for python-default' failed with exit code 1.
stdout:

stderr:
Failed to spawn a job for /home/manos/Workspace/pants-repo/.conda/bin/python3.9: unknown error (_ssl.c:3161)



Use `--keep-sandboxes=on_failure` to preserve the process chroot for inspection.

Pants version Tested with versions:

• 2.16.0
• 2.17.0
• 2.18.0
• 2.18.2
• 2.19.0rc5

(same result for all tested versions)

OS Tested with

• Fedora 38 (Linux 6.6.13-100.fc38.x86_64)
• Fedora 39 (Linux 6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64)

(same result for all tested versions)

Additional info I think this issue started happening after a kernel update from Fedora. Has anyone else run into this issue before? Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be very appreciated!