Authentication Cluster Operator is Degraded and Pod is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff state.
Issue
- Authentication operator is degraded because
OAuthServerDeploymentDegraded: 1 of 3 requested instances are unavailable
foroauth-openshift.openshift-authentication
(crashlooping container is waiting inoauth-openshift-1234xxx
pod) -
oauth
pod is inCrashLoopBackOff
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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