Catalog Operator pod crashing with panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

Issue

• The Catalog Operator Pod is restarting continuously which causes the operator installation and upgrade to fail.

• The Catalog Operator Pod is crashing and showing errors as described below:

  level=info msg="starting workers..."
  level=info msg="syncing catalog source for annotation templates" catSrcName=my-operator-catalog catSrcNamespace=openshift-marketplace id=Ul2he
  level=info msg="Adding related objects for operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog"
  panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
  [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x197ac7d]