[Windows] "crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows"

[placaze]

With Windows, we see the warning error reading system cert pool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows everytime kafkactl reaches the brokers.

Example:

MINGW64 ~/Downloads
$ ./kafkactl.exe get topics --config-file kafkactl-dev.yaml
error reading system cert pool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows
error reading system cert pool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows
TOPIC                                                           PARTITIONS
[...]

I saw a workaround here: golang/go#16736 (comment). I don't know if it can help.

[d-rk]

Hey @placaze
Thank you for reporting. The solution is probably just to avoid fetching systemCerts for Windows somewhere here:
https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl/blob/master/internal/common-operation.go#L217

[d-rk]

@placaze this will be fixed with golang/go@3544082 and will probably be available with go 1.18.
So we will just wait for this.