diff --git a/test/e2e/apimachinery/chunking.go b/test/e2e/apimachinery/chunking.go
index 5fa2cf459f4..06f7269273b 100644
--- a/test/e2e/apimachinery/chunking.go
+++ b/test/e2e/apimachinery/chunking.go
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Servers with support for API chunking", func() {
 				}
 				e2elog.Logf("Got an error creating template %d: %v", i, err)
 			}
-			ginkgo.Fail("Unable to create template %d, exiting", i)
+			e2elog.Fail("Unable to create template %d, exiting", i)
 		})
 	})
 
diff --git a/test/e2e/apimachinery/table_conversion.go b/test/e2e/apimachinery/table_conversion.go
index 6773a47d956..0a0939f7be2 100644
--- a/test/e2e/apimachinery/table_conversion.go
+++ b/test/e2e/apimachinery/table_conversion.go
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Servers with support for Table transformation", func() {
 				}
 				e2elog.Logf("Got an error creating template %d: %v", i, err)
 			}
-			ginkgo.Fail("Unable to create template %d, exiting", i)
+			e2elog.Fail("Unable to create template %d, exiting", i)
 		})
 
 		pagedTable := &metav1beta1.Table{}
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/BUILD b/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/BUILD
index b2aa1f83079..6c4b6f2c81e 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/BUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ go_library(
     srcs = ["testfiles.go"],
     importpath = "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/testfiles",
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-    deps = ["//vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo:go_default_library"],
+    deps = ["//test/e2e/framework/log:go_default_library"],
 )
 
 filegroup(
diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/testfiles.go b/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/testfiles.go
index f2434925daa..85691cc05f0 100644
--- a/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/testfiles.go
+++ b/test/e2e/framework/testfiles/testfiles.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
+	e2elog "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/log"
 )
 
 var filesources []FileSource
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ type FileSource interface {
 func ReadOrDie(filePath string) []byte {
 	data, err := Read(filePath)
 	if err != nil {
-		ginkgo.Fail(err.Error(), 1)
+		e2elog.Fail(err.Error(), 1)
 	}
 	return data
 }
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ func Exists(filePath string) bool {
 	for _, filesource := range filesources {
 		data, err := filesource.ReadTestFile(filePath)
 		if err != nil {
-			ginkgo.Fail(fmt.Sprintf("fatal error looking for test file %s: %s", filePath, err), 1)
+			e2elog.Fail(fmt.Sprintf("fatal error looking for test file %s: %s", filePath, err), 1)
 		}
 		if data != nil {
 			return true