diff -r 8d1525c76e65 -r 5de78b6fff2e cubicweb/server/__init__.py
--- a/cubicweb/server/__init__.py	Thu Feb 23 17:51:11 2017 +0100
+++ b/cubicweb/server/__init__.py	Thu Feb 23 18:02:33 2017 +0100
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@
     config.cube_appobject_path = set(('hooks', 'entities'))
     # only enable the system source at initialization time
     repo = Repository(config, vreg=vreg)
+    repo.bootstrap()
     if init_config is not None:
         # further config initialization once it has been bootstrapped
         init_config(config)