kubelet connecting to docker.sock instead of containerd.sock

Kubernetes version: latest
Installation method: kubeadm
Host OS: debian9
container runtime: containerd

Kubelet fails when starting and after inspecting the logs using journalctl -xeu kubelet i see that it tries to connect to the docker.sock socket instead of containerd.sock. I tried running kubeadm --config=config.yaml using this config file

apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: InitConfiguration
nodeRegistration:
        criSocket: "unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock"

I have also tried running the kubeadm with the container runtime 85 argument, also doesn’t work.
any other ideas are appreciated and thanks

In kubeadm docs

--cri-socket stringPath to the CRI socket to connect. If empty kubeadm will try to auto-detect this value; use this option only if you have more than one CRI installed or if you have non-standard CRI socket.

StackExchange DevOps Q#13252, answer score: 2