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+Bugfix: Purposely delay accounts service startup
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+As it turns out the race condition between `accounts <-> storage-metadata` still remains. This PR is a hotfix, and it should be followed up with a proper fix. Either:
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+- block the accounts' initialization until the storage metadata is ready (using the registry) or
+- allow the accounts service to initialize and use a message broker to signal the accounts the metadata storage is ready to receive requests.
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+https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/1734