2020-03-06 14:27:12,344 - util.py[WARNING]: failed stage init-local
2020-03-06 14:27:12,353 - util.py[DEBUG]: failed stage init-local
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 653, in status_wrapper
    ret = functor(name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 361, in main_init
    _maybe_set_hostname(init, stage='local', retry_stage='network')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 709, in _maybe_set_hostname
    cc_set_hostname.handle('set-hostname', init.cfg, cloud, LOG, None)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_set_hostname.py", line 77, in handle
    prev_hostname = util.load_json(util.load_file(prev_fn))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1587, in load_json
    decoded = json.loads(decode_binary(text))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 357, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/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)
2020-03-06 14:27:12,357 - atomic_helper.py[DEBUG]: Atomically writing to file /var/lib/cloud/data/status.json (via temporary file /var/lib/cloud/data/tmp2oraxdza) - w: [644] 526 bytes/chars
2020-03-06 14:27:12,357 - util.py[DEBUG]: Reading from /proc/uptime (quiet=False)