Why Ansible Tower Jobs Are Failing With Error 'distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: cannot copy tree '/var/lib/awx/projects/projectname': not a directory' ?

Issue

When running Ansible Towr jobs using manual project, the job fails with below error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py", line 1382, in run self.pre_run_hook(self.instance, private_data_dir) File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py", line 1954, in pre_run_hook RunProjectUpdate.make_local_copy(job.project, private_data_dir, scm_revision=job_revision) File "/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py", line 2385, in make_local_copy copy_tree(project_path, destination_folder, preserve_symlinks=1) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 124, in copy_tree "cannot copy tree '%s': not a directory" % src) distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: cannot copy tree '/var/lib/awx/projects/test': not a directory