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Homebridge stopped working - Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0xffffff0 characters

See original GitHub issue

I had Homebridge working for a while and suddenly it stopped working giving errors below. I initially thought it might an issue with one of the plug-ins or accessories, so unistalled all of them and removed the config.json and still see the same error

[12/4/2020, 23:13:47] Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0xffffff0 characters
    at Object.slice (buffer.js:606:37)
    at Buffer.toString (buffer.js:803:14)
    at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:408:41)
    at LocalStorage.parseDirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:637:35)
    at LocalStorage.parseDataDirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:572:21)
    at LocalStorage.initSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:145:14)
    at HAPStorage.storage (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/src/lib/model/HAPStorage.ts:23:25)
    at Function.HAPStorage.storage (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/src/lib/model/HAPStorage.ts:11:26)
    at Function.AccessoryInfo.load (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/src/lib/model/AccessoryInfo.ts:204:28)
    at Bridge.Accessory._this.publish (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs/src/lib/Accessory.ts:890:41)