Collector in CrashLoopBackOff when defined an output that not used in the pipelines in RHOL 6

Issue

• Collector pods are going in CrashLoopBackOff state when there is unused outputs defined in the ClusterLogForwarder(CLF) in RHOL6, but not an error visible in the clusterLogForwarder custom resource status section:

  $ oc get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/component=collector -n openshift-logging
  NAME              READY   STATUS             RESTARTS       AGE
  collector-796xd   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   33 (85s ago)   144m
  collector-bkswb   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   33 (86s ago)   144m
  collector-gjct7   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   33 (56s ago)   144m
  collector-htq46   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   33 (32s ago)   144m
  collector-rnw5w   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   33 (72s ago)   144m
  

• Collector pods throw the error=Transform "<normalized output name> " has no inputs has no inputs error:

  $ oc logs collector-796xd 
  Creating the directory used for persisting Vector state /var/lib/vector/openshift-logging/collector
  Starting Vector process...
  2025-02-20T18:24:16.695224Z ERROR vector::cli: Configuration error. error=Transform "output_rsyslog_parse_encoding" has no inputs