Description of problem:

We’ve confirmed that the e2e tests are broken on the 4.15 release.
Please see the related PR for details: https://github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/pull/1012

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

4.15

How reproducible:

To confirm the issue, we pushed a PR without any code changes: https://github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/pull/1012

We re-triggered the tests multiple times, and the failures were consistent each time — indicating the problem is not related to any code change in the PR itself.

Actual results:

Failures - Timeout  

Expected results:

Pass    

See the errors:

Subscription when bundle unpack retries are enabled [It] should retry failing unpack jobs
/go/src/github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/staging/operator-lifecycle-manager/test/e2e/subscription_e2e_test.go:2681
  [FAILED] Expected
      <wait.errInterrupted>: 
      timed out waiting for the condition
      {
          cause: <*errors.errorString | 0xc0002521d0>{
              s: "timed out waiting for the condition",
          },
      }
  to be nil
  In [It] at: /go/src/github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/staging/operator-lifecycle-manager/test/e2e/subscription_e2e_test.go:2814 @ 05/25/25 01:14:57.429

code: https://github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/blob/release-4.15/staging/operator-lifecycle-manager/test/e2e/subscription_e2e_test.go#L2681 

[FAIL] Install Plan [It] creation with permissions
  /go/src/github.com/openshift/operator-framework-olm/staging/operator-lifecycle-manager/test/e2e/installplan_e2e_test.go:2940

Since the test failures started appearing and the check is no longer marked as optional, we believe one of the following might be true:

a) The test may have been made non-optional even though it was already failing intermittently.
b) The root cause might be external — for example, a recent RHEL update or a change in an OpenShift component could have increased processing time, leading to timeouts.

Note: It is blocking the https://issues.redhat.com//browse/OCPBUGS-56358 get merged.