Error loading image.tar: Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob

Issue

Loading an archived image using podman load -i image.tar command throws the following errors:

• Error loading image.tar: Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob
• error creating layer with ID "xxxxxxxx": Stat /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/xxxxxx: no such file or directory
• Error loading image.tar: payload does not match any of the supported image formats (oci, oci-archive, dir, docker-archive)
• rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Error writing blob: error storing blob to file "/var/tmp/storagexxxx/1": flate: corrupt input before offset xxxxxx

# podman load -i image.tar --log-level=debug

INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug
DEBU[0000] Called load.PersistentPreRunE(podman load -i image.tar --log-level=debug) 
DEBU[0000] Merged system config "/usr/share/containers/containers.conf" 
DEBU[0000] Using conmon: "/usr/bin/conmon"
DEBU[0000] Initializing boltdb state at /var/lib/containers/storage/libpod/bolt_state.db 
DEBU[0000] Using graph driver overlay
DEBU[0000] Using graph root /var/lib/containers/storage 
DEBU[0000] Using run root /var/run/containers/storage
DEBU[0000] Using static dir /var/lib/containers/storage/libpod 
DEBU[0000] Using tmp dir /run/libpod
DEBU[0000] Using volume path /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes 
DEBU[0000] Set libpod namespace to ""
DEBU[0000] [graphdriver] trying provided driver "overlay" 
DEBU[0000] cached value indicated that overlay is supported 
DEBU[0000] cached value indicated that metacopy is not being used 
DEBU[0000] NewControl(/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay): nextProjectID = 1076602600 
DEBU[0000] cached value indicated that native-diff is usable 
DEBU[0000] backingFs=xfs, projectQuotaSupported=true, useNativeDiff=true, usingMetacopy=false 
DEBU[0000] Initializing event backend file
DEBU[0000] configured OCI runtime kata initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime kata: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] configured OCI runtime runsc initialization failed: no valid executable found for OCI runtime runsc: invalid argument 
DEBU[0000] Using OCI runtime "/usr/bin/runc"
INFO[0000] Found CNI network crio (type=bridge) at /etc/cni/net.d/100-crio-bridge.conf 
INFO[0000] Found CNI network 200-loopback.conf (type=loopback) at /etc/cni/net.d/200-loopback.conf 
INFO[0000] Found CNI network podman (type=bridge) at /etc/cni/net.d/87-podman-bridge.conflist 
DEBU[0000] Default CNI network name podman is unchangeable 
INFO[0000] Setting parallel job count to 97
DEBU[0000] Loading image from "image.tar"
DEBU[0000] -> Attempting to load "image.tar" as an OCI directory 
DEBU[0000] parsed reference into "[overlay@/var/lib/containers/storage+/var/run/containers/storage]localhost/image.tar:latest" 
DEBU[0000] Copying source image image.tar: to destination image [overlay@/var/lib/containers/storage+/var/run/containers/storage]localhost/image.tar:latest 

DEBU[0000] Error loading image.tar: Error initializing source oci:image.tar:: open image.tar/index.json: not a directory 
DEBU[0000] -> Attempting to load "image.tar" as an OCI archive 
DEBU[0000] Error deleting temporary directory: <nil>
DEBU[0000] Error loading image.tar: error loading index: open /var/tmp/oci140799822/index.json: no such file or directory 
DEBU[0000] -> Attempting to load "image.tar" as a Docker dir 
....
Copying blob 50644c29ef5a skipped: already exists
Copying blob 0097350d5664 skipped: already exists
Copying blob 7564af3b5460 skipped: already exists
Copying blob 80e4461a4b82 skipped: already exists
DEBU[0000] No compression detected
DEBU[0000] Using original blob without modification
Copying config 5823fd65b3 done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures
DEBU[0000] Error loading image.tar: Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob "sha256:bc73e9c7b7265138f02d7672a560583228d2ba53348e373950978e3ef954673f": error creating layer with ID "2cc8d0b2df04d184d6a1172ae7469571cfb83f1a157527d4d5a25153bebd8eff": Stat /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/fac7cbfaf3acd03fe52af6d1ebc27792b18e7745fc3d9a13e66b9235dfacc408: no such file or directory 
DEBU[0000] Error loading image.tar: payload does not match any of the supported image formats (oci, oci-archive, dir, docker-archive) 
Error: payload does not match any of the supported image formats (oci, oci-archive, dir, docker-archive