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

Start with the localai run entry point and the localai.service and localai.socket unit definitions shown in the report. Reproduce the hanging connection on Linux/NixOS and inspect the service logs and socket handoff. Done means socket activation starts LocalAI and connections to port 11434 receive responses.