Changing type of Homepage-node causes Footer to throw an exception

So, the first thing I tried was to set the default language back to en_US.
After that, node repair worked without a hitch.

Then I changed default language to ‘de’ again, followed by

> ./flow node:migrate 20140326143834

Comments
  Migrate from no node dimensions to default dimension values.

Successfully applied migration.


> ./flow node:repair
Generate missing URI path segments

Could not find "/sites" root node

Run several operations to ensure the node integrity

Checking for nodes with abstract or undefined node types ...
Checking for orphan nodes ...
Checking for disallowed child nodes ...
Checking for undefined properties ...
Checking for missing child nodes ...
Checking for child nodes that needs reordering ...
Checking for missing default values ...

Node repair finished.

>./flow configuration:validate
Validating all configuration

All Valid!

doesn’t seem to have any consequences, though.