id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,cpu,platform 895,Error linking GeoTiff file with r.external,huhabla,grass-dev@…,"I receiving an error while trying to link a geotiff file with r.external into a spearfish60 location. The file was previously generated with r.out.gdal. The import of the same file with r.in.gdal works without problems. The error message of r.external: {{{ ERROR: Missing type: field in file '/home/soeren/grassdata/spearfish60/user1/cell_misc/test/f_format' }}} Here the workflow: {{{ GRASS 7.0.svn (spearfish60):~ > g.region rast=elevation.dem@PERMANENT GRASS 7.0.svn (spearfish60):~ > r.out.gdal input=elevation.dem@PERMANENT format=GTiff type=Float64 output=elevation.30m.tiff -c Exporting to GDAL data type: Float64 Checking GDAl data type and nodata value 100% Input raster map contains cells with NULL-value (no-data). The value nan will be used to represent no-data values in the input map. You can specify a nodata value with the nodata option. Exporting to GDAL raster 100% r.out.gdal complete. GRASS 7.0.svn (spearfish60):~ > r.external input=elevation.30m.tiff output=test Projection of input dataset and current location appear to match Importing band 1 of 1... ERROR: Missing type: field in file '/home/soeren/grassdata/spearfish60/user1/cell_misc/test/f_format' GRASS 7.0.svn (spearfish60):~ > }}} Soeren",defect,closed,normal,7.0.0,Raster,svn-trunk,fixed,r.external,,x86-32,Linux