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NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

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Gracefully handle transiently failing exists calls (#23172)

I have a very repeatable reproduction of an issue where most of my
cameras show a "No frames have been received, check error logs" image in
the UI, but restreaming in HomeAssistant is working flawlessly. The only
errors in the logs I saw were some like this:

`OSError: [Errno 121] Remote I/O error`.

Doing a bit more debugging, it looked like Frigate was failing to create
the thumbnail directory for a camera because it already existed. This
error was a clue as to the class of error. I was surprised to learn that
`os.path.exists` [silently suppresses errors from
os.stat and returns False](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/genericpath.py#L22).
This makes for a plausible series of events: a transient stat call
fails, so Frigate takes the creation path, which gets upset that the
directory already exists.

I found a few other possible cases to fix but did not make an exhaustive
search. It seems that this `exist_ok` flag is used elsewhere within
Frigate so I thought it would be a good solution.

AI disclosure: I used AI to diagnose my issue and asked it to translate
its init-time patches to the container source into this repo. I verified
that its patches solved the problem I was facing. Its theory fits the
facts - I am using a distributed file system and I saw the error in my
logs. I checked the upstream Python code to verify the error suppression
behavior, and read the corresponding Frigate code. I did not use AI to
author this commit message/PR description; all diction and typos here are my own.
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Rob Arnold committed
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Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com> on 5/12/2026, 6:34:46 PM