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`

{
    if (!fCheckBlockIndex) {
        return;
    }
    LOCK(cs_main);
    
    
    
    if (chainActive.Height() < 0) {
        assert(mapBlockIndex.size() <= 1);
        return;
    }
    
    std::multimap<CBlockIndex*,CBlockIndex*> forward;
    for (BlockMap::iterator it = mapBlockIndex.begin(); it != mapBlockIndex.end(); it++) {
        forward.insert(std::make_pair(it->second->pprev, it->second));
    }
    assert(forward.size() == mapBlockIndex.size());
    std::pair<std::multimap<CBlockIndex*,CBlockIndex*>::iterator,std::multimap<CBlockIndex*,CBlockIndex*>::iterator> rangeGenesis = forward.equal_range(NULL);
    CBlockIndex *pindex = rangeGenesis.first->second;
    rangeGenesis.first++;
    assert(rangeGenesis.first == rangeGenesis.second); 
    
    
    
    size_t nNodes = 0;
    int nHeight = 0;
    CBlockIndex* pindexFirstInvalid = NULL; 
    CBlockIndex* pindexFirstMissing = NULL;