restart_frigate() called psutil.Process(1).terminate() to signal s6-svscan, but s6-svscan runs as root while frigate runs as uid 1000, so the call raised AccessDenied. That exception escaped every caller: the UI restart button dropped its websocket client, MQTT restart and Save & Restart just logged and did nothing, and the watchdog crashed its own monitoring thread on a dead detector. This catches AccessDenied and falls through to the existing SIGINT branch, which exits the process for s6 to restart it.