http://bugs.gentoo.org/333349
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25744

--- src/main.c
+++ src/main.c
@@ -331,11 +331,19 @@
 
         setup_debug_log (debug);
 
+	g_debug ("initializing console-kit-daemon %s", VERSION);
+
         connection = get_system_bus ();
         if (connection == NULL) {
                 goto out;
         }
 
+	manager = ck_manager_new ();
+
+	if (manager == NULL) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
         bus_proxy = get_bus_proxy (connection);
         if (bus_proxy == NULL) {
                 g_warning ("Could not construct bus_proxy object; bailing out");
@@ -347,18 +355,10 @@
                 goto out;
         }
 
-        g_debug ("initializing console-kit-daemon %s", VERSION);
-
 	delete_console_tags ();
 
         create_pid_file ();
 
-        manager = ck_manager_new ();
-
-        if (manager == NULL) {
-                goto out;
-        }
-
         loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE);
 
         g_signal_connect (bus_proxy,