nslcd: unable to daemonize

[Johan Smits]

Running in vivid with version 0.9.4-3 (AMD64) I random get no logins with nslcd and I see this error message:
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1087]: nslcd: unable to daemonize: Success
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1087]: ...fail!

sudo service nslcd status
[sudo] password for localadmin:
[GREEN] nslcd.service - LSB: LDAP connection daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/nslcd)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-05-12 14:21:21 CEST; 36min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1087 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nslcd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: LDAP connection daemon...
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1087]: * Starting LDAP connection daemon nslcd
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1143]: version 0.9.4 starting
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1087]: nslcd: unable to daemonize: Success
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 nslcd[1087]: ...fail!
May 12 14:21:21 linuxdesktop02 systemd[1]: Started LSB: LDAP connection daemon.

[Arthur de Jong (adejong)]

This is likely to be the same issue as https://bugs.debian.org/759544 which is fixed in Debian testing and unstable. Discussion on fixing this is stable can be found at https://bugs.debian.org/785053. Fixing this in a 0.9.4 version probably requires inclusing other patches that are part of 0.9.5.

[Johan Smits (johan-smits)]

I updated to 0.9.5-2 grabbed from wily and now it works ok.