Hi. I could not run that program due to a segfault in the call to getgrouplist. After googling a little, I changed the 'compat' settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf to 'files nis' and all went well. Now dbus is up and running (and I gotta figure out how to make it do what I want, but that's anothing thing ;)
Thanks a lot for your help. I'll probably try to forward this bug to the debian libc6 package. -- StÃphane Epardaud