The release pipeline fails publishing packages

[Arash-Sabet]

The release pipeline still is failing per the following details:

2025-09-08T01:05:33.3590409Z ##[section]Starting: Verify Packages Directory
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3596511Z ==============================================================================
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3596833Z Task : Command line
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3597229Z Description : Run a command line script using Bash on Linux and macOS and cmd.exe on Windows
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3597672Z Version : 2.250.1
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3597881Z Author : Microsoft Corporation
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3598130Z Help : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/command-line
2025-09-08T01:05:33.3598366Z ==============================================================================
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5820836Z Generating script.
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5842067Z ========================== Starting Command Output ===========================
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5850823Z [command]/usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc /home/vsts/work/_temp/1135abdb-9924-46c2-8024-b4b500da366a.sh
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5962389Z Packages directory does not exist at /home/vsts/work/1/a/packages
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5965839Z Contents of staging directory:
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5975862Z total 768
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5976550Z drwxr-xr-x 2 vsts vsts 4096 Sep 8 01:05 .
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5978146Z drwxr-xr-x 7 vsts vsts 4096 Sep 8 01:04 ..
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5978862Z -rw-r--r-- 1 vsts vsts 24069 Sep 8 01:05 Xunit.Microsoft.DependencyInjection.1.0.0.nupkg
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5979586Z -rw-r--r-- 1 vsts vsts 13133 Sep 8 01:05 Xunit.Microsoft.DependencyInjection.1.0.0.snupkg
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5980462Z -rw-r--r-- 1 vsts vsts 735227 Sep 8 01:05 src.zip
2025-09-08T01:05:33.5988776Z
2025-09-08T01:05:33.6067752Z ##[error]Bash exited with code '1'.
2025-09-08T01:05:33.6098552Z ##[section]Finishing: Verify Packages Directory

[github-actions]

The release pipeline is failing during the "Verify Packages Directory" step due to a missing packages directory at the expected path (/home/vsts/work/1/a/packages). Although the staging directory contains files such as Xunit.Microsoft.DependencyInjection.1.0.0.nupkg, Xunit.Microsoft.DependencyInjection.1.0.0.snupkg, and src.zip, the pipeline execution halts with a "Bash exited with code 1" error, indicating that the pipeline cannot proceed without detecting the required packages directory. The issue requires investigation into why the directory is not being created or populated as expected before this step.