[SOLVED] WUA scan failure: JSONDecodeError
Published: November 17, 2022 - 4:04 PM
Hello everyone.
When running a WUA scan on a Windows 7 Pro machine (on which it had worked fine until now), the scan immediately fails with this message:
Any idea what might happen?
When running a WUA scan on a Windows 7 Pro machine (on which it had worked fine until now), the scan immediately fails with this message:
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JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptservice\service.py", line 1894, in run
self.running_task.run()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptservice\waptservice_common.py", line 699, in run
self._run()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptservice\enterprise.py", line 230, in _run
with WaptWUA(self.wapt) as wua:
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptwua\client.py", line 462, in __init__
self.load_windows_updates_rules_from_packages()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptwua\client.py", line 475, in load_windows_updates_rules_from_packages
self.windows_updates_rules.merge_rules_from_files(makepath(p['persistent_dir'], 'waptwua_rules.json'))
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\wapt\waptwua\client.py", line 229, in merge_rules_from_files
rules = json.load(open(json_fn, 'r'))
File "json\__init__.py", line 293, in load
File "json\__init__.py", line 357, in loads
File "json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
File "json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)