dbus question

[Eric W. Bates]

I apologize if this has been asked many times. I'm a list n00b and I 
could not find a solution with Google.

My ISP is using a stock Debian emacs build and has no interest in 
compiling emacs with dbus disabled. At the same time, this is a headless 
server and dbus is not running. So every time emacs starts, it barfs with:

process 3824: D-bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to 
read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": ...

My question:
can d-bus affiliation be disabled via a .emacs setting; or can it only 
be disable by building emacs WITHOUT_DBUS?

Thank you for your time.