Reported here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10244#issuecomment-378035305

Travis log here: https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/jobs/361243719#L2810

Note the JSON exception:

```
test_framework.authproxy.JSONRPCException: The mempool was not loaded yet (-1) 
```

That exception was introduced here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/cb1e319fe9e198c9c5cf5236fe9af5a3d748b9e8#diff-a0c8f511d90e83aa9b5857e819ced344R1617

cc @jtimon 
CValidationState state;
    const CChainParams& chainparams = Params();
    if (!FlushStateToDisk(chainparams, state, FlushStateMode::ALWAYS)) {
        LogPrintf("%s: failed to flush state (%s)\n", __func__, FormatStateMessage(state));
    }
}
void PruneAndFlush() {
    CValidationState state;
    fCheckForPruning = true;
    const CChainParams& chainparams = Params();
    if (!FlushStateToDisk(chainparams, state, FlushStateMode::NONE)) {
        LogPrintf("%s: failed to flush state (%s)\n", __func__, FormatStateMessage(state));
    }
}
static void DoWarning(const std::string& strWarning)
{
    static bool fWarned = false;
    SetMiscWarning(strWarning);
    if (!fWarned) {
        AlertNotify(strWarning);
        fWarned = true;
    }
}
static void AppendWarning(std::string& res, const std::string& warn)