so seems it's unable to read STATUS_FILE some times

[petertavenier]

I see often the message;

10/13/2025 15:00:03 PM(File:ncubed watchdog daemon, Line:203, <module>) - ERROR - 1943: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
10/13/2025 15:00:03 PM(File:ncubed watchdog daemon, Line:204, <module>) - ERROR - 1943: Fatal error occured during watchdog connection-test: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ncubed/watchdog.service/init.py", line 195, in <module>
    if not check_connection():
  File "/opt/ncubed/watchdog.service/init.py", line 117, in check_connection
    status = json.load(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

seems like to refer to

vep-orch-tools/opt/ncubed/updates/20250723-0002/ncubed/watchdog.service/init.py

Line 117 in 5833f98

status = json.load(file)

so seems it's unable to read STATUS_FILE at the time.