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 
if (IsInitialBlockDownload()) {
            
            nBuffer += nPruneTarget / 10;
        }
        for (int fileNumber = 0; fileNumber < nLastBlockFile; fileNumber++) {
            nBytesToPrune = vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nSize + vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nUndoSize;
            if (vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nSize == 0)
                continue;
            if (nCurrentUsage + nBuffer < nPruneTarget)  
                break;
            
            if (vinfoBlockFile[fileNumber].nHeightLast > nLastBlockWeCanPrune)
                continue;
            PruneOneBlockFile(fileNumber);
            
            setFilesToPrune.insert(fileNumber);
            nCurrentUsage -= nBytesToPrune;
            count++;
        }
    }
    LogPrint(BCLog::PRUNE, "Prune: target=%dMiB actual=%dMiB diff=%dMiB max_prune_height=%d removed %d blk/rev pairs\n",
           nPruneTarget/1024/1024, nCurrentUsage/1024/1024,
           ((int64_t)nPruneTarget - (int64_t)nCurrentUsage)/1024/1024,
           nLastBlockWeCanPrune, count);
}
static FlatFileSeq BlockFileSeq()
{
    return FlatFileSeq(GetBlocksDir(), "blk", BLOCKFILE_CHUNK_SIZE);
}
static FlatFileSeq UndoFileSeq()