Data Grid in OCP 4 pod gets ___protobuf_metadata on cluster without state

Issue

Customer has one pod and cannot spawn another, because it gives the follow issue and goes on crashback loop:

18:44:07,871 WARN  (jgroups-22,iss-prd-infinispan-0-14970) [org.infinispan.CLUSTER] ISPN000071: Caught exception when handling command TopologyJoinCommand{cacheName='___protobuf_metadata', origin=iss-prd-infinispan-1-59998, joinInfo=CacheJoinInfo{consistentHashFactory=org.infinispan.distribution.ch.impl.SyncReplicatedConsistentHashFactory@5f17220d, numSegments=256, numOwners=2, timeout=240000, cacheMode=REPL_SYNC, persistentUUID=203c3e23-829d-40af-a160-23078d9b58a0, persistentStateChecksum=Optional[601209598]}, viewId=3} org.infinispan.topology.CacheJoinException: ISPN000408: Node a-node-????? with persistent state attempting to join cache ___protobuf_metadata on cluster without state
    at org.infinispan.topology.ClusterCacheStatus.addMember(ClusterCacheStatus.java:237)
    at org.infinispan.topology.ClusterCacheStatus.doJoin(ClusterCacheStatus.java:703)
    at org.infinispan.topology.ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.lambda$handleJoin$3(ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.java:233)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApplyNow(CompletableFuture.java:680)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniApplyStage(CompletableFuture.java:658)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenApply(CompletableFuture.java:2094)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenApply(CompletableFuture.java:143)
    at org.infinispan.topology.ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.lambda$handleJoin$4(ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.java:233)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniComposeStage(CompletableFuture.java:1106)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenCompose(CompletableFuture.java:2235)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenCompose(CompletableFuture.java:143)
    at org.infinispan.topology.ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.handleJoin(ClusterTopologyManagerImpl.java:225)
    at org.infinispan.commands.topology.CacheJoinCommand.invokeAsync(CacheJoinCommand.java:42)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.inboundhandler.GlobalInboundInvocationHandler$ReplicableCommandRunner.run(GlobalInboundInvocationHandler.java:252)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.inboundhandler.GlobalInboundInvocationHandler.handleReplicableCommand(GlobalInboundInvocationHandler.java:174)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.inboundhandler.GlobalInboundInvocationHandler.handleFromCluster(GlobalInboundInvocationHandler.java:113)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.processRequest(JGroupsTransport.java:1412)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.processMessage(JGroupsTransport.java:1335)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport.access$400(JGroupsTransport.java:135)
    at org.infinispan.remoting.transport.jgroups.JGroupsTransport$ChannelCallbacks.up(JGroupsTransport.java:1490)
    at org.jgroups.JChannel.up(JChannel.java:784)
    at org.jgroups.stack.ProtocolStack.up(ProtocolStack.java:913)
    at org.jgroups.protocols.FRAG3.up(FRAG3.java:165)