[Web Bug] - Install Crossplane

[hornjr]

getting 500 internal server error trying to install crossplane v1.20.0 using standard helm install:

helm repo add crossplane-stable https://charts.crossplane.io/stable
helm repo update
helm install crossplane \
--namespace crossplane-system \
--create-namespace crossplane-stable/crossplane

Install appears to be successful:

NAME: crossplane
LAST DEPLOYED: Fri Jul 18 21:47:50 2025
NAMESPACE: crossplane-system
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
Release: crossplane

Chart Name: crossplane
Chart Description: Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume.
Chart Version: 1.20.0
Chart Application Version: 1.20.0

Kube Version: v1.32.5

but pods are in "Init:ImagePullBackOff" status

kubectl get pod -n crossplane-system
NAME                                       READY   STATUS                  RESTARTS   AGE
crossplane-67b976bbf4-m9bvw                0/1     Init:ImagePullBackOff   0          82s
crossplane-rbac-manager-594757659d-jjp44   0/1     Init:ImagePullBackOff   0          82s

Events from kubectl describe crossplane-67b976bbf4-m9bvw

Events:
  Type     Reason     Age                   From               Message
  ----     ------     ----                  ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled  3m19s                 default-scheduler  Successfully assigned crossplane-system/crossplane-67b976bbf4-m9bvw to desktop-worker2
  Normal   Pulling    23s (x5 over 3m19s)   kubelet            Pulling image "xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane/crossplane:v1.20.0"
  Warning  Failed     22s (x5 over 3m19s)   kubelet            Failed to pull image "xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane/crossplane:v1.20.0": failed to pull and unpack image "xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane/crossplane:v1.20.0": failed to resolve reference "xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane/crossplane:v1.20.0": unexpected status from HEAD request to http://registry-mirror:1273/v2/crossplane/crossplane/manifests/v1.20.0?ns=xpkg.crossplane.io: 500 Internal Server Error
  Warning  Failed     22s (x5 over 3m19s)   kubelet            Error: ErrImagePull
  Normal   BackOff    11s (x12 over 3m18s)  kubelet            Back-off pulling image "xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane/crossplane:v1.20.0"
  Warning  Failed     11s (x12 over 3m18s)  kubelet            Error: ImagePullBackOff

URL: https://docs.crossplane.io/latest/software/install/

[jbw976]

This looks suspicious here:

unexpected status from HEAD request to http://registry-mirror:1273/v2/crossplane/crossplane/manifests/v1.20.0?ns=xpkg.crossplane.io: 500 Internal Server Error

Do you have a mirror set up within the cluster that you could check further into? e.g. does it have logs that would give more information on that 500 error response?