cat-log list-dir mode: fail gracefully #8460

Job	Run time
1/4	13m 7s
2/4	11m 53s
3/4	13m 7s
4/4	14m 35s
py-3-latest	21m 56s
flaky	6m 13s
_remote_background_indep_poll	5m 8s
_remote_background_indep_tcp	7m 10s
macos 1/5	20m 3s
macos 2/5	17m 15s
codecov	8s
	2h 10m 35s

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