When we trigger a periodic/on-demand gathering, and at the same time, if we remove the corresponding DataGather, the gathering will panic when the gathering pod tries to update IO conditions.

    1. Trigger the gathering many times and delete the DataGather at the same time.

    1. Write a script to trigger the gathering many times and delete the DataGather at the same time.     
    2. Monitor the gathering pod status and view its logs.
    

I1027 07:09:23.860883       1 diskrecorder.go:51] Wrote 183 records to disk in 11ms
I1027 07:09:23.860941       1 request.go:1178] Error in request: resource name may not be empty
E1027 07:09:23.860963       1 gather_commands.go:249] resource name may not be empty
I1027 07:09:23.872747       1 requests.go:46] Uploading application/vnd.redhat.openshift.periodic to https://console.redhat.com/api/ingress/v1/upload
I1027 07:09:24.064832       1 requests.go:87] Successfully reported id=2025-10-27T07:09:23Z x-rh-insights-request-id=f8d4db9a390c4171af5b031e9beedb93, wrote=105340
I1027 07:09:24.064944       1 insightsuploader.go:226] Uploaded report successfully in 203.971478ms
I1027 07:09:24.064965       1 gather_commands.go:268] Insights archive successfully uploaded with InsightsRequestID: f8d4db9a390c4171af5b031e9beedb93
I1027 07:09:24.064986       1 request.go:1178] Error in request: resource name may not be empty
E1027 07:09:24.065010       1 gather_commands.go:273] resource name may not be empty
I1027 07:09:24.069045       1 gather_commands.go:410] Initial delay when checking processing status: 1m0s
I1027 07:10:24.075892       1 requests.go:294] Making HTTP GET request at: https://console.redhat.com/api/insights-results-aggregator/v2/cluster/b4df1e47-e46d-40da-986a-04bd6df867d1/request/f8d4db9a390c4171af5b031e9beedb93/status
I1027 07:10:33.948521       1 request.go:1178] Error in request: resource name may not be empty
E1027 07:10:33.948557       1 datagather_status.go:164] Failed to update DataGather resource  conditions: resource name may not be empty
E1027 07:10:33.948564       1 gather_commands.go:364] Failed to update DataGather resource  state: resource name may not be empty
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x138 pc=0x28ec7d5]

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller/status.UpdateDataGatherConditions({0x39698c8, 0xc0003ec2a0}, {0x39348d8, 0xc0002dfcc0}, 0x0, {0xc000fcb330, 0x2, 0x5875360?})
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller/status/datagather_status.go:203 +0x55
github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller.updateDataGatherStatus({0x39698c8, 0xc0003ec2a0}, {0x39348d8, 0xc0002dfcc0}, 0xc001345860, 0xc000fcb760, {0x341908c, 0x12})
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller/gather_commands.go:367 +0x25c
github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller.(*GatherJob).GatherAndUpload(0xc0005b4dc0, 0xc000788488, 0xc0007886c8)
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/controller/gather_commands.go:292 +0x1dfd
github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/cmd/start.NewGatherAndUpload.runGatherAndUpload.func1(0xc000179200?, {0x33fcecf?, 0x4?, 0x33fced3?})
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/pkg/cmd/start/start.go:196 +0x6d
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc0006d6908, {0xc000703ca0, 0x2, 0x2})
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:989 +0xabb
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc00095f508)
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:1117 +0x44f
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:1041
main.main()
	/go/src/github.com/openshift/insights-operator/cmd/insights-operator/main.go:31 +0x10f  

    2. The gathering pod doesn't exist with the Error status ,and there is no panic error inside the pod logs.