Last payload showed several occurrences of this problem seemingly surfacing the same way:

https://amd64.ocp.releases.ci.openshift.org/releasestream/4.16.0-0.nightly/release/4.16.0-0.nightly-2023-12-18-092716

Example jobs:

https://prow.ci.openshift.org/view/gs/origin-ci-test/logs/periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.16-e2e-gcp-sdn-techpreview-serial/1736680969496170496

https://prow.ci.openshift.org/view/gs/origin-ci-test/logs/periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.16-e2e-gcp-sdn-techpreview-serial/1736680969496170496 (blocked the payload)

Looking at sippy, both tests took a dip in pass rate on the 16th, meaning a regression may have merged late on the 15th (friday) or somewhere on the 16th (less likely)

console operator test 4.16

auth operator test 4.16

The problem kills the install and thus we are getting no intervals charts to help debug.