Installation of filesystem package fails with "unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/tmp: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory error".

Issue

• Install of filesystem-2.4.30-3.el6.x86_64.rpm using rpm command fails with following error.

  [root@example ~]# rpm -ivh filesystem-2.4.30-3.el6.x86_64.rpm 
  Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
     1:filesystem             ########################################### [100%]
  error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/tmp: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory
  

• Install of filesystem package using yum command fails with following error.

  [root@example ~]# yum update filesystem
  Running Transaction
    Updating   : filesystem-2.4.30-3.el6.x86_64                               1/2 
  Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.30-3.el6.x86_64
  error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/tmp: cpio: rename
  Installed products updated.
  filesystem-2.4.30-2.1.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!