Chef knife gives GSSAPI C library warning

Question

Spending the day updating all of my tools:

Chef 10.16.2 Ruby 1.9.3-p327 Mac OSx Lion XCode 4.5.2

Now every knife command produces these annoying warnings:

WARNING: Could not load IOV methods. Check your GSSAPI C library for an update
WARNING: Could not load AEAD methods. Check your GSSAPI C library for an update

Knife seems to work fine. I'm unable to find any help for finding or updating a GSSAPI C library.

Answer 1

This was too annoying for me to ignore. After much google searching I came to the same conclusion @Mojo did - comment out the warnings.

On OS X I'm using homebrew and rbenv - and my gems are located here:

~/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/

You can use the gem environment command to get information about where yours are stored.

I had both gssapi-1.0.3 and gssapi-1.1.2 installed - the latter seems to be the most current version at the time of this posting, and it also seems to be where my errors are coming from. The file I had to change was:

gems/1.9.1/gems/gssapi-1.1.2/lib/gssapi/lib_gssapi.rb

Full path for me was:

~/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p448/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gssapi-1.1.2/lib/gssapi/lib_gssapi.rb

For the first error, comment out the warning somewhere around like 288:

rescue FFI::NotFoundError => ex
  # warn "WARNING: Could not load IOV methods. Check your GSSAPI C library for an update"
end

For the second error, comment out the warning somewhere around like 300:

rescue FFI::NotFoundError => ex
  # warn "WARNING: Could not load AEAD methods. Check your GSSAPI C library for an update"
end

Hopefully there will be a better solution soon because I don't really believe in modifying installed gems - but this error was a little too annoying to ignore.