Authentication Cluster Operator is Degraded and Pod is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff state.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Authentication operator is degraded because OAuthServerDeploymentDegraded: 1 of 3 requested instances are unavailable for oauth-openshift.openshift-authentication (crashlooping container is waiting in oauth-openshift-1234xxx pod)
  • oauth pod is in CrashLoopBackOff state, failing with below error message:

    2025-06-12T13:38:59.943631541Z F0612 13:38:59.943541       1 cmd.go:56] failed to load SNI cert and key: tls: failed to find PEM block with type ending in "PRIVATE KEY" in key input after skipping PEM blocks of the following types: [CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATE]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4

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