Description of problem:

MCE installation is stuck in progressing state due to the failing local-cluster import

MCE operator shows:

~~~

• kind: local-cluster
  lastTransitionTime: "2023-09-06T08:55:26Z"
  message: Registration agent stopped updating its lease.
  name: local-cluster
  reason: ManagedClusterLeaseUpdateStopped
  status: Unknown
  type: ManagedClusterConditionAvailable
  ~~~

The import cluster controller pod shows the below logs:

~~~
2023-09-06T08:33:14.873261836Z 2023-09-06T08:33:14.873137499Z INFO importconfig-controller Reconciling managed cluster import secret

2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z 2023-09-06T08:33:14.916190199Z ERROR Reconciler error {"controller": "importconfig-controller", "object":

, "namespace": "", "name": "local-cluster", "reconcileID": "347eb8ed-30f5-4520-8e74-0103fc3ae7f6", "error": "tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority"}
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).reconcileHandler
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z /remote-source/deps/gomod/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.14.4/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:329
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).processNextWorkItem
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z /remote-source/deps/gomod/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.14.4/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:274
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).Start.func2.2
2023-09-06T08:33:14.916349465Z /remote-source/deps/gomod/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.14.4/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:235
2023-09-06T08:33:17.370054188Z 2023-09-06T08:33:17.36991248Z INFO selfmanagedcluster-controller Reconciling self managed cluster

2023-09-06T08:33:17.370054188Z 2023-09-06T08:33:17.369997774Z INFO selfmanagedcluster-controller Waiting for klusterlet manifest works for managed cluster local-cluster

~~~

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8

Actual results:

MCE operator is stuck in progressing state.

Expected results:

MCE operator should be successfully installed.

Additional info:

• The underlying ocp cluster is deployed on Baremetal
• The must-gather shows that no local-cluster* import secrets have been created under the local-cluster namespace either:

~~~
% less namespaces/local-cluster/core/secrets.yaml | grep " name: " | grep local-cluster
name: local-cluster-bootstrap-sa-dockercfg-86r5b
name: local-cluster-bootstrap-sa-token-cl99b
name: local-cluster-bootstrap-sa-token-cl99b
~~~