dbus-daemon 0.91 only checks for a valid username after being forked and with default configuration the error message went to /dev/null. Maybe check before the fork stage and a more visible error message (syslog?)?
Adding as a D-Bus 1.0 Blocker
Just got into the 0.92 release
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