After starting from command line bitocoind, it can require minutes to have bitocoind to be real responsive, for example:
`$ ./bitcoin-cli stop`
`error: {"code":-28,"message":"Activating best chain..."}`

In such situation, I had sometimes to "kill -9" bitcoind to stop it.
I would like to be able to stop bitcoind in clean way.

p.s.:
`$ uname -a`
`Darwin isghe.local 14.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64`

pfrom->PushMessage(NetMsgType::GETHEADERS, chainActive.GetLocator(pindexLast), uint256());
        }
        bool fCanDirectFetch = CanDirectFetch(chainparams.GetConsensus());
        CNodeState *nodestate = State(pfrom->GetId());
        
        
        if (fCanDirectFetch && pindexLast->IsValid(BLOCK_VALID_TREE) && chainActive.Tip()->nChainWork <= pindexLast->nChainWork) {
            vector<CBlockIndex *> vToFetch;
            CBlockIndex *pindexWalk = pindexLast;
            
            while (pindexWalk && !chainActive.Contains(pindexWalk) && vToFetch.size() <= MAX_BLOCKS_IN_TRANSIT_PER_PEER) {
                if (!(pindexWalk->nStatus & BLOCK_HAVE_DATA) &&
                        !mapBlocksInFlight.count(pindexWalk->GetBlockHash())) {
                    
                    vToFetch.push_back(pindexWalk);
                }
                pindexWalk = pindexWalk->pprev;
            }
            
            
            
            
            if (!chainActive.Contains(pindexWalk)) {
                LogPrint("net", "Large reorg, won't direct fetch to %s (%d)\n",
                        pindexLast->GetBlockHash().ToString(),
                        pindexLast->nHeight);
            } else {
                vector<CInv> vGetData;
                
                BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH(CBlockIndex *pindex, vToFetch) {