Fix persistent storage startup with blank initialBuckets entries

[VAdaihiep]

Description
This PR fixes a startup bug in persistent storage mode where a blank initialBuckets entry could create an invalid root-level persisted bucket metadata file and cause InternalError responses after restart.

Changes:

• Ignore blank or whitespace-only initialBuckets entries during startup.
• Add a regression test covering initialBuckets = listOf("").
• Update CHANGELOG.md with the bug fix.

Related Issue

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Tasks

• I have written tests and verified that they fail without my change.
• I have run make format to fix code style.
• I have updated CHANGELOG.md (if applicable).
• I have updated documentation (if applicable).
• I have signed the CLA.
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Verification

• Ran:

  .\mvnw.cmd -B -V -pl server -Dtest=StoreConfigurationTest test

• Result: test suite passed.

[afranken]

thanks for the contribution. I rebased your changes against the current main and created #3085 to merge them.