RHOCP: couldn't find unpacked step (unknown) during operator upgrade after cluster is upgraded from 4.14 to 4.15

Issue

• After cluster is upgraded from 4.14.y to 4.15.z, when the operator approval plan is set to manual, the operator fails at operator installing (upgrading) if you want to install new version bundle.
• Multiple operators facing the same issue while upgrading.
• RHACS operator issue:

Below error can be seen in RHACS operator yaml:

lastTransitionTime: "2024-12-17T21:18:02Z"
message: 'couldn''t find unpacked step for rhacs-operator.v4.5.5: rhacs-operator.v4.5.5-rhacs-operator-controller-mana-6b98d855bf[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role (redhat-operators/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)'
reason: InstallComponentFailed
status: "True"
type: InstallPlanFailed

• Elasticsearch operator issue:

couldn't find unpacked step for elasticsearch-operator.v5.8.14: elasticsearch-operator.v5.8.14-5c868cd474[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/ClusterRole (redhat-operators-416-2024-10-31/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)

• Service Mesh operator is unable to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6 even the install plan is set to 'Manula':

couldn't find unpacked step for jaeger-operator.v1.62.0-1: jaeger-operator.v1.62.0-1-jaeger-operator-77c968d4dc[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role (redhat-operators/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)

• Upgraded Streams for Apache Kafka operator from version 2.7.0-6 to version 2.7.0-7 which stuck in pending state:

 message: 'couldn''t find unpacked step for amqstreams.v2.7.0-7: amqstreams.v2.7.0-7-strimzi-cluster-operator-57d69b97f4[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role
      (redhat-operators/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)'
    reason: InstallComponentFailed

• update of the External-secerts operator via OLM:

Failed
couldn't find unpacked step for external-secrets-operator.v0.10.5: external-secrets-operator.v0.10.5-external-secrets-o-78b595fbdf[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role (community-operators/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)

• Not able to upgrade the operator of RHACM & its dependencies operator

 - lastTransitionTime: "2024-10-31T13:16:29Z"
    message: 'couldn''t find unpacked step for advanced-cluster-management.v2.9.4:
      advanced-cluster-management.v2.9.4-multiclusterhub-o-84948fcb65[rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role
      (redhat-operator-index/openshift-marketplace)] (Unknown)'
    reason: InstallComponentFailed
    status: "True"
    type: InstallPlanFailed

• This issue can be seen with almost every the operators.