Socket activation not working

LocalAI version: commit 832123427517cfcf4b0a89c7c78081d053225942

Environment, CPU architecture, OS, and Version: Linux flatwoody 7.2.2 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 28 06:25:22 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Describe the bug Socket activation does not work , when I try to connect to the port it hangs indefinetly while the logs report it running

To Reproduce

; sc cat localai
# /etc/systemd/system/localai.service -> /nix/store/ymx5w27nhwdcmfpxpyvhdql98x74ah7p-unit-localai.service/localai.service
[Unit]

[Service]
Environment="DEBUG=true"
Environment="HSA_ENABLE_SDMA=0"
Environment="HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.5.1"
Environment="HSA_XNACK=1"
Environment="LOCALAI_WATCHDOG_IDLE=true"
Environment="LOCALAI_WATCHDOG_IDLE_TIMEOUT=1m"
Environment="LOCALE_ARCHIVE=/nix/store/l45fk7x6bk1qdjb1sy1xnynmhdf9g100-glibc-locales-2.42-84/lib/locale/locale-archive"
Environment="PATH=/nix/store/3qgy8q2j64v2m9jy3a5jmssacbblhd4r-coreutils-9.11/bin:/nix/store/i4kjidyvl8ciwbcwm75g75sriq3knav0-findutils-4.11.0/bin:/nix/store/yhr4ps9rdmb55pgqaq246vlh7xfac1dx-gnugrep-3.12/bin:/nix/store/4nylac9gazdpsid79qyk0jpqm312b2jx-gnused-4.10/bin:/nix/store/sm8d6jpilwdy3bw3yq2lv8rr8jld26pb-systemd-261.2/bin:/nix/store/3qgy8q2j64v2m9jy3a5jmssacbblhd4r-coreutils-9.11/sbin:/nix/store/i4kjidyvl8ciwbcwm75g75sriq3knav0-findutils-4.11.0/sbin:/nix/store/yhr4ps9rdmb55pgqaq246vlh7xfac1dx-gnugrep-3.12/sbin:/nix/store/4nylac9gazdpsid79qyk0jpqm312b2jx-gnused-4.10/sbin:/nix/store/sm8d6jpilwdy3bw3yq2lv8rr8jld26pb-systemd-261.2/sbin"
Environment="ROCBLAS_USE_HIPBLASLT=1"
Environment="TZDIR=/nix/store/p0ff33dca0fbkskqwrl3spvxcn5974h0-tzdata-2026c/share/zoneinfo"
CPUWeight=50
DynamicUser=true
ExecStart=/nix/store/7vnw3p4fq874mmjvmzh5hia198wcviwm-localai/bin/localai run
Group=render
OOMScoreAdjust=1000
Restart=no
StateDirectory=localai
SupplementaryGroups=video
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/localai

# /nix/store/46gqwy3vik6iwppyzzvncy85hs5rigd6-system-units/service.d/mail.conf -> /nix/store/p2av62fdi2q4ys5a9xrr6f2ykf7fayfn-mail.conf/lib/systemd/system/service.d/mail.conf
[Unit]
OnFailure=unit-status-mail@%n.service

; sc cat localai.socket
# /etc/systemd/system/localai.socket -> /nix/store/iwlnvm6zfhmaa1aa258iq56jbavzb1jc-unit-localai.socket/localai.socket
[Unit]

[Socket]

ListenStream=11434


[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

Expected behavior It answers connections

Logs

Additional context