In case of CRC we provision the cluster first and the create the disk image out of it and that what we share to our users. Now till now we always remove the pull secret from the cluster after provision it using https://github.com/crc-org/snc/blob/master/snc.sh#L241-L258 and it worked without any issue till 4.11.x but for 4.12.0-rc.1 we are seeing that MCO not able to reconcile.

1. Create a single node cluster using cluster bot `launch 4.12.0-rc.1 aws,single-node` 

2. Once cluster is provisioned update the pull secret from the config 

```
$ cat pull-secret.yaml 
apiVersion: v1
data:
  .dockerconfigjson: e30K
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: pull-secret
  namespace: openshift-config
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
$ oc replace -f pull-secret.yaml
```

3. Wait for MCO recocile and you will see failure to reconcile MCO

$ oc get mcp
NAME     CONFIG                                             UPDATED   UPDATING   DEGRADED   MACHINECOUNT   READYMACHINECOUNT   UPDATEDMACHINECOUNT   DEGRADEDMACHINECOUNT   AGE
master   rendered-master-66086aa249a9f92b773403f7c3745ea4   False     True       True       1              0                   0                     1                      94m
worker   rendered-worker-0c07becff7d3c982e24257080cc2981b   True      False      False      0              0                   0                     0                      94m


$ oc get co machine-config
NAME             VERSION       AVAILABLE   PROGRESSING   DEGRADED   SINCE   MESSAGE
machine-config   4.12.0-rc.1   True        False         True       93m     Failed to resync 4.12.0-rc.1 because: error during syncRequiredMachineConfigPools: [timed out waiting for the condition, error pool master is not ready, retrying. Status: (pool degraded: true total: 1, ready 0, updated: 0, unavailable: 0)]

$ oc logs machine-config-daemon-nf9mg -n openshift-machine-config-operator
[...]
I1123 15:00:37.864581   10194 run.go:19] Running: podman pull -q --authfile /var/lib/kubelet/config.json quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba
Error: initializing source docker://quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: (Mirrors also failed: [quayio-pull-through-cache-us-west-2-ci.apps.ci.l2s4.p1.openshiftapps.com/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: reading manifest sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba in quayio-pull-through-cache-us-west-2-ci.apps.ci.l2s4.p1.openshiftapps.com/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev: unauthorized: authentication required]): quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: reading manifest sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba in quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev: unauthorized: access to the requested resource is not authorized
W1123 15:00:39.186103   10194 run.go:45] podman failed: running podman pull -q --authfile /var/lib/kubelet/config.json quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba failed: Error: initializing source docker://quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: (Mirrors also failed: [quayio-pull-through-cache-us-west-2-ci.apps.ci.l2s4.p1.openshiftapps.com/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: reading manifest sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba in quayio-pull-through-cache-us-west-2-ci.apps.ci.l2s4.p1.openshiftapps.com/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev: unauthorized: authentication required]): quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba: reading manifest sha256:ffa3568233298408421ff7da60e5c594fb63b2551c6ab53843eb51c8cf6838ba in quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev: unauthorized: access to the requested resource is not authorized
: exit status 125; retrying...