While starting up a node (commit 6fc6325), it was apparently taking curiously long to load the ban list. RPC (in warmup mode) kept returning `Loading banlist...`. When I checked the log I happened upon the following:

```
2016-05-30 07:35:00 init message: Loading banlist...
2016-05-30 07:35:26 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000045614e4901f822a86e4015543acc6a68653cc9450f0f330 height=410222 version=0x20000000 log2_work=84.600836 tx=126776938 date='2016-05-04 18:0
1:59' progress=0.984518 cache=8.8MiB(5488tx)
...
2016-05-30 07:39:43 DNS seeding disabled
2016-05-30 07:39:43 opencon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 msghand thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 addcon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 init message: Done loading
2016-05-30 07:39:43 net thread start
```

I think it's a matter of the init message not being updated for a new initialization phase after loading the banlist.

if (pindex->nHeight < chainActive.Height()-nCheckDepth)
            break;
        if (fPruneMode && !(pindex->nStatus & BLOCK_HAVE_DATA)) {
            
            LogPrintf("VerifyDB(): block verification stopping at height %d (pruning, no data)\n", pindex->nHeight);
            break;
        }
        CBlock block;
        
        if (!ReadBlockFromDisk(block, pindex, chainparams.GetConsensus()))
            return error("VerifyDB(): *** ReadBlockFromDisk failed at %d, hash=%s", pindex->nHeight, pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString());
        
        if (nCheckLevel >= 1 && !CheckBlock(block, state, chainparams.GetConsensus()))
            return error("%s: *** found bad block at %d, hash=%s (%s)\n", __func__, 
                         pindex->nHeight, pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString(), FormatStateMessage(state));
        
        if (nCheckLevel >= 2 && pindex) {
            CBlockUndo undo;
            CDiskBlockPos pos = pindex->GetUndoPos();
            if (!pos.IsNull()) {
                if (!UndoReadFromDisk(undo, pos, pindex->pprev->GetBlockHash()))
                    return error("VerifyDB(): *** found bad undo data at %d, hash=%s\n", pindex->nHeight, pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString());
            }
        }
        
        if (nCheckLevel >= 3 && pindex == pindexState && (coins.DynamicMemoryUsage() + pcoinsTip->DynamicMemoryUsage()) <= nCoinCacheUsage) {
            bool fClean = true;
            if (!DisconnectBlock(block, state, pindex, coins, &fClean))
                return error("VerifyDB(): *** irrecoverable inconsistency in block data at %d, hash=%s", pindex->nHeight, pindex->GetBlockHash().ToString());
            pindexState = pindex->pprev;