Recover from missing inline file

[bob-zscharnagk]

I manually deleted an inline file from the pki folder. Now I can't get rid of the error message or seemingly generate any new inline file. How do I resolve this?

[TinCanTech]

Hi, can you please post the error message that you are seeing.

[bob-zscharnagk]

./easytls ita external 0

Easy-TLS 2.7.0.0.0
OpenVPN 2.5.7
OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022
Error: Missing file: C:/Progra~1/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline

./easytls ri external

Easy-TLS 2.7.0.0.0
OpenVPN 2.5.7
OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022
Error: Missing file: C:/Progra~1/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline

./easytls inline-index-rebuild

Easy-TLS 2.7.0.0.0
OpenVPN 2.5.7
OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022
Error: Missing file: C:/Progra~1/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline

./easytls s

Easy-TLS 2.7.0.0.0
OpenVPN 2.5.7
OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022
Error: Missing file: C:/Progra~1/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline

[TinCanTech]

Please try with current version 2.8.0

Please make sure you backup what you currently have.

The new version will re-index correctly and should allow you to continue.

The command you need with the new version is easytls rehash

[bob-zscharnagk]

That is shown as being 2.7.0 which is what I have.

./easytls rehash
Easy-TLS 2.7.0.0
OpenVPN 2.5.7
OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022
Error: Missing file: C:/Progra~1/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline

[TinCanTech]

You require this:

easy-tls/easytls

Line 9293 in 81b1c29

EASYTLS_VERSION="2.8.0"

See the link above.

[bob-zscharnagk]

OK tried that and got

./easytls rehash

Rehash completed successfully.
Error log:
Error: Missing file: C:/Program Files/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline
Easy-TLS 2.8.0 (0)
EasyRSA Shell

[TinCanTech]

Hopefully, you can now use easytls remove-inline external, please try.

[bob-zscharnagk]

./easytls ri external

Error log:
Error: Missing file: C:/Program Files/OpenVPN/Easy-RSA/pki/easytls/external.inline
Easy-TLS 2.8.0 (0)
EasyRSA Shell

[bob-zscharnagk]

I don't know if it's relevant but in 2..7.0 the path was c:/progra~1 and in 2.8.0 it's c:/program files.

[TinCanTech]

Hopefully the space in the PATH is taken care of.

I will look into this later today.

Thanks for feeding back.

[TinCanTech]

One thing you could try is to make the inline file again.

[aazudd]

Same pain for me after removing an inline file via CLI. [Easy-TLS 2.7.0]

1/ Comment the line of the node related to the error message in the easytls/data/easytls-inline-index.txt
2/ ./easytls rehash

The error message does not appear anymore and the usage of ./easytls is fine