frigate: [Support]: Errno 21 Is a directory

Describe the problem you are having

Complete and total newbie here, but I’ve made it this far.

Whenever I run docker-compose up I get:

"Errno 21 Is a Directory: ‘/config/config.yml’

My docker-compose.yml is located at Users/me/Frigate and my config.yml is located at Users/me/Frigate/config. The paths are written as such in the docker-compose.yml file (don’t have access to those files at the moment but can post them later).

I’ve read the threads here with the Errno 21 issue and didn’t get anywhere. It’s a file, not a Directory! I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

Any suggestions?

Version

Amd64

Frigate config file

Can post later.

Relevant log output

FFprobe output from your camera

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Other

Install method

Docker Compose

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wireless

Camera make and model

Reolink

Any other information that may be helpful

Ubuntu

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 36 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

The left side is on the host storage and can be whatever makes sense to you. The right side never changes, it is only ever exactly what the docs say because that’s what frigate expects.

Ok, I think that clears it up. I’ll tell my brother to check this conversation when he has a chance, and I think he will figure it out from there. Thank you for the quick response @NickM-27 Ill let you know if we run into any issues.

ajfradkin on Sep 6, 2023

The below worked for me. You have to create config.yaml ahead of time as stated in the setup instructions.

Contents and tree of the root folder for docker compose

root@docker:/home/jeremy/docker/frigate# find . . ./config ./config/config.yaml ./storage ./storage/frigate.db ./storage/clips ./storage/recordings ./docker-compose.yaml

My volumes in the compose file volumes: - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - ./config:/config - ./storage:/media/frigate

musicjeremy on Jul 14, 2023

Using LXC and with the following stack volumes

volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime
- /root/frigate:/config:rw
- /root/frigate/clips:/media/frigate/clips:rw
- /root/frigate/recordings:/media/frigate/recordings:rw

my config.yml is located in /root/frigate/config.yml

smeegoan on Apr 4, 2023

You need to create the path and file on your host before starting the container. If you don’t, docker will create the path assuming you want a directory. That will cause this error. Clean up the directory created by docker then create a file called config.yml instead according to the docs. Then you can start the container.

blakeblackshear on Jan 5, 2022