open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255

Getting an error in the node event log each hour when the WARPOLL event runs:

evnt WARPOLL !JavaScript /sbbs/xtrn/war//warcommon.js line 135: SyntaxError: JSON.parse

My warcommon.js matches the latest version that is checked in.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_2753

It sounds like your `game.save.json` file in the game directory is corrupt.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_3195

I'm going to close this issue if there aren't any follow-ups.

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_3587

I'm getting this error too - and my game save json files look like this:

-rw-rw----. 1 sbbs sbbs 0 May 7 00:00 ./alderon/game.save.json
-rw-rw----. 1 sbbs sbbs 0 May 7 00:00 ./earth/game.save.json
-rw-rw----. 1 sbbs sbbs 0 May 7 00:00 ./solomoriah/game.save.json
-rw-rw----. 1 sbbs sbbs 0 May 7 00:00 ./spacewar/game.save.json
-rw-rw----. 1 sbbs sbbs 0 May 7 00:00 ./tolivar/game.save.json

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_3588

Probably safe to delete 0-byte .json files or restore from a backup?

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_4660


Hello! I have a similar problem but I can't detect which file it refers to.


```
# grep JSON /var/log/sbbs.log

Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON server initialized (v1.39) Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/data/chat.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/synchronetris/synchronetris.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/tw2/tw2.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON client initialized (v1.29)
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/Doubles/doubles.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/synkroban/synkroban.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/druglord/druglord.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON database initialized (v1.40): /sbbs/xtrn/oneliners/oneliners.json
Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--94: 127.0.0.1 connected Dec 31 20:07:44 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON Synchronetris background service initialized
Dec 31 20:07:45 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON JSON client initialized (v1.29)
Dec 31 20:07:46 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON SyntaxError: JSON.parse
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dec 31 20:11:55 scarlet synchronet: term Node 2 <Ragnarok> JSON client initialized (v1.29)
Dec 31 20:11:55 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--90: 127.0.0.1 connected Dec 31 20:11:55 scarlet synchronet: srvc 0000 JSON <--90: 127.0.0.1 disconnected
Dec 31 20:11:55 scarlet synchronet: term Node 2 <Ragnarok> JSON client initialized (v1.29)
```

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_5280

hi @rswindell ! can you add more debug message to this log?, like filename or line/column of corrupted file?
i try to find what file trigger me this error.
Thanks!

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_5288

I don't think so. The script filename and line are already logged, as was reported:
warcommon.js line 135

And the JS engine doesn't throw the line/column of the JSON it can't parse. As Deuce stated, the corrupt file appears to be "`game.save.json` file in the game directory" - have you looked at this file? Just pasting that file into any online JSON parser should show what the issues are.

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close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/255#note_5289

@rswindell Rob, I didn't really realize this was still open. The original issue this was opened for has long since been remediated by resolving the game.save.json issue. That said, I've updated the repo from scratch several times since opening the original ticket. Not sure where the corruption originated from, but not seeing it now. I'll close this as it looks like additional comments are similar json issues but unrelated to the WARPOLL event. Thanks!

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