From 8e9fd27e2417cbe854f471e3209ce83a25217b0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mattias=20Walstr=C3=B6m?= <lazzer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:07:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] yanger: hardware: Do not crash if failing to read
 /run/system.json

---
 src/statd/python/yanger/ietf_hardware.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/statd/python/yanger/ietf_hardware.py b/src/statd/python/yanger/ietf_hardware.py
index 75e53079..74bf46cc 100644
--- a/src/statd/python/yanger/ietf_hardware.py
+++ b/src/statd/python/yanger/ietf_hardware.py
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ def wifi_radio_components():
 
 
 def operational():
-    systemjson = HOST.read_json("/run/system.json")
+    systemjson = HOST.read_json("/run/system.json", {})
 
     return {
         "ietf-hardware:hardware": {