I have created two nodes and connected the 1st node with the 2nd node in regtest mode . Now when I make the getblocktemplate command using bitcoin-cli . It fails with bitcoin is downloading the block.
 
Bitcoin core vs v0.16

_admin1@root:~/Projects/bitcoin$ ./src/bitcoin-cli -regtest -port=8333 -rpcport=8332 -rpcuser=test -rpcpassword=test getconnectioncount_
**1**
_admin1@root:~/Projects/bitcoin$ ./src/bitcoin-cli -regtest -port=8333 -rpcport=8332 -rpcuser=test -rpcpassword=test getblocktemplate_
**error code: -10
error message:
Bitcoin is downloading blocks.**
#include <chainparams.h>
#include <consensus/consensus.h>
#include <consensus/params.h>
#include <consensus/validation.h>
#include <core_io.h>
#include <key_io.h>
#include <miner.h>
#include <net.h>
#include <policy/fees.h>
#include <pow.h>
#include <rpc/blockchain.h>
#include <rpc/mining.h>
#include <rpc/server.h>
#include <rpc/util.h>
#include <shutdown.h>
#include <txmempool.h>
#include <util/strencodings.h>
#include <util/system.h>
#include <validation.h>
#include <validationinterface.h>
#include <versionbitsinfo.h>
#include <warnings.h>
#include <memory>
#include <stdint.h>
/**
 * Return average network hashes per second based on the last 'lookup' blocks,
 * or from the last difficulty change if 'lookup' is nonpositive.
 * If 'height' is nonnegative, compute the estimate at the time when a given block was found.
 */
static UniValue GetNetworkHashPS(int lookup, int height) {