MustGather silently fails when the caseManagementAccountSecretRef field points to a Secret that doesn’t exist in the cluster. 
When the Secret cannot be found, it will be stuck

There is no error logging in MustGather.Error logs can only be found in the Operator log.2025-10-16T07:52:33Z INFO mustgather-controller Error getting secret (case-management-creds)!

    4.21 4.20

    1. Create a CR with a fake secret
jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ oc get csv
NAME                                  DISPLAY              VERSION   REPLACES   PHASE
support-log-gather-operator.v4.20.0   support log gather   4.20.0               Succeeded

         
jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ cat supportloggather-uploadTarget.yaml 
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1
kind: MustGather
metadata:
  name: support-log-gather-jitli 
  namespace: must-gather-operator 
spec:
  serviceAccountRef:
    name: must-gather-operator
  uploadTarget:
    type: SFTP
    sftp:
      caseID: "04230315"
      caseManagementAccountSecretRef:
        name: mustgather-creds

jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ oc get secret
NAME                                           TYPE                      DATA   AGE
builder-dockercfg-hvsws                        kubernetes.io/dockercfg   1      71m
default-dockercfg-m6clc                        kubernetes.io/dockercfg   1      71m
deployer-dockercfg-4h5zs                       kubernetes.io/dockercfg   1      71m
must-gather-operator-catalog-dockercfg-4bplv   kubernetes.io/dockercfg   1      69m
must-gather-operator-dockercfg-nqnc6           kubernetes.io/dockercfg   1      48m

jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ oc create -f supportloggather-uploadTarget.yaml 
mustgather.operator.openshift.io/support-log-gather-jitli created

    2.    Nothing happens, no pod is created, no error message, just stuck

jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ oc get mustgather support-log-gather-jitli -o yaml
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1alpha1
kind: MustGather
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2025-10-28T06:10:28Z"
  finalizers:
  - finalizer.mustgathers.operator.openshift.io
  generation: 2
  name: support-log-gather-jitli
  namespace: must-gather-operator
  resourceVersion: "115716"
  uid: 1a96101c-7a1b-4607-b41e-b40b56d4c355
spec:
  audit: false
  mustGatherTimeout: 0s
  proxyConfig:
    httpProxy: ""
    httpsProxy: ""
  retainResourcesOnCompletion: false
  serviceAccountRef:
    name: must-gather-operator
  uploadTarget:
    sftp:
      caseID: "04230315"
      caseManagementAccountSecretRef:
        name: mustgather-creds
      host: sftp.access.redhat.com
      internalUser: true
    type: SFTP

     3.     Get err logs from pod

jitli@RedHat:~/work/src/test/must-gather$ oc logs must-gather-operator-74c94859b9-wrsns
2025-10-28T06:10:29Z ERROR mustgather-controller the secret mustgather-creds was not found in namespace must-gather-operator {"error": "Secret \"mustgather-creds\" not found"}

    Nothing happens, no pod is created, no error message, just stuck

    When the Secret specified in the MustGather CR does not exist, I expect an error message to be returned directly.