The olm-operator is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff state

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The olm-operator pod fails to reach a Running state because specific CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs) are missing the required olm.managed: true label.

    time="2026-04-17T08:31:01Z" level=error msg="found nonconforming items: missing the the required label \"olm.managed\" (metadata.labels[\"olm.managed\"]=\"true\"). " gvr="apiextensions.k8s.io/v1, Resource=customresourcedefinitions" nonconforming=10

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.18.22
  • Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) 0.0.1-snapshot

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