Comskip file path limt?

I’m suddenly having a problem with plex recoding, or more specifically saving my news programs. It looks like it records them, but then when it goes to run comskip, it can’t access the file?

I’m not certain if it is related to the fact that we are now around 100 episodes into the season or something else, but it seems pretty inconsistent. I’m going to try tomorrow without scanning for commercials.

Server Version#: 1.26.0.5715
Player Version#:
Tuner Make/Model: HDHomeRun Prime
Guide/Lineup name:
Using XMLTV?:
Channel number/Name:

Here is a snippet from systemctl, one thing goes fine, the other, not so much:

Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: 255974 frames decoded in 680.87 seconds (375.95 fps)
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Commercial Skipper”
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: “–ini=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini”
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: “–output=/mnt/BigOne/Media/News/Fox 5 News at 4 (2019)/Season 2022”
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: -t
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: --quiet
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: “/mnt/BigOne/Media/News/Fox 5 News at 4 (2019)/Season 2022/Fox 5 News at 4 (2019) - 2022-04-14 00 00 00 - Fox 5 News at 4.ts”
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: Setting ini file to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini as per commandline
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: Using /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini for initiation values.
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: Auto selecting the PID.
Apr 14 17:19:51 barrel Plex Media Server[2263823]: Commercials were found.
Apr 14 19:00:00 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: Plex Commercial Skipper, made using ffmpeg
Apr 14 19:00:00 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: Donator build
Apr 14 19:00:00 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: The commandline used was:
Apr 14 19:00:39 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: [2.9K blob data]
Apr 14 19:00:40 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: /mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019) - S2022E74 - CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.ts: Can not open file
Apr 14 19:00:41 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: /mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019) - S2022E74 - CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.ts: Can not open file
Apr 14 19:00:42 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: /mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019) - S2022E74 - CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.ts: Can not open file
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: /mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019) - S2022E74 - CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.ts: Can not open file
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: “/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Commercial Skipper”
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: “–ini=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/DVR/comskip.ini”
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: “–output=/mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022”
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: -t
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: --quiet
Apr 14 19:00:43 barrel Plex Media Server[2273875]: “/mnt/BigOne/Media/News/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)/Season 2022/CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019) - S2022E74 - CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell.ts”

So, I upped logging, and saw that a bunch of the plex executables were failing, so after some googling I uppped the max_user_watches, now at 524288.

Apr 18, 2022 19:00:04.527 [0x7fce40501b38] DEBUG - Jobs: ‘/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder’ exit code for process 336819 is 1 (failure)

It may have helped, but I’m still getting failures that generally prevent the news from moving from the .grab directory into the library as they usually do/used to.

I’m also getting a bunch of some sort of error in systemctl, not certain if that is related… output also attached.

Plex Media Server.1.log (10.0 MB)

April18error.systemctl.log (243.2 KB)

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