panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference error in Kubeflow Pipeline on RHOAI

Issue

When we submit kubeflow pipeline we are getting the following error:

db-pipeline-z7mn2-system-container-impl-3993796453

I0212 13:22:01.268474      21 main.go:64] Setting log level to: '1'
I0212 13:22:01.271061      21 cache.go:87] Connecting to cache endpoint ds-pipeline-dspa.selim-workspace.svc.cluster.local:8887
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x20da405]

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/backend/src/v2/metadata.(*Client).PublishExecution(0xc00063b540, {0x2d85880, 0x43dd600}, 0x0, 0x0, {0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, 0x4)
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/metadata/client.go:498 +0x65
github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/backend/src/v2/component.(*LauncherV2).publish(0x1?, {0x2d85880?, 0x43dd600?}, 0x482?, 0xc0005cd930?, {0x0?, 0xc000a18340?, 0x2d546e0?}, 0xb06048?)
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/component/launcher_v2.go:344 +0x8a
github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/backend/src/v2/component.(*LauncherV2).Execute.func2()
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/component/launcher_v2.go:193 +0x7a
github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/backend/src/v2/component.(*LauncherV2).Execute(0xc0010285a0, {0x2d85880, 0x43dd600})
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/component/launcher_v2.go:216 +0xa05
main.run()
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/cmd/launcher-v2/main.go:127 +0x992
main.main()
    /opt/app-root/src/backend/src/v2/cmd/launcher-v2/main.go:54 +0x13
time="2026-02-12T13:22:02.238Z" level=info msg="sub-process exited" argo=true error="<nil>"
Error: exit status 2