From aad408a879072d4fc4d2fad52b73d0aee234606a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clinton Christian <pygeek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:44:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] gh-2985: Fixed startup serve UnboundLocalError.

---
 sanic/mixins/startup.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sanic/mixins/startup.py b/sanic/mixins/startup.py
index 7dd64abf16..8723668aa3 100644
--- a/sanic/mixins/startup.py
+++ b/sanic/mixins/startup.py
@@ -1033,6 +1033,7 @@ def serve(
 
         socks = []
         sync_manager = Manager()
+        worker_state: Mapping[str, Any] = { "state": "NONE" }
         setup_ext(primary)
         exit_code = 0
         try: