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 
nConnectTimeout = DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT;
    }
    peer_connect_timeout = gArgs.GetArg("-peertimeout", DEFAULT_PEER_CONNECT_TIMEOUT);
    if (peer_connect_timeout <= 0) {
        return InitError("peertimeout cannot be configured with a negative value.");
    }
    if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-minrelaytxfee")) {
        CAmount n = 0;
        if (!ParseMoney(gArgs.GetArg("-minrelaytxfee", ""), n)) {
            return InitError(AmountErrMsg("minrelaytxfee", gArgs.GetArg("-minrelaytxfee", "")));
        }
        
        ::minRelayTxFee = CFeeRate(n);
    } else if (incrementalRelayFee > ::minRelayTxFee) {
        
        ::minRelayTxFee = incrementalRelayFee;
        LogPrintf("Increasing minrelaytxfee to %s to match incrementalrelayfee\n",::minRelayTxFee.ToString());
    }
    
    
    if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-blockmintxfee"))
    {
        CAmount n = 0;
        if (!ParseMoney(gArgs.GetArg("-blockmintxfee", ""), n))
            return InitError(AmountErrMsg("blockmintxfee", gArgs.GetArg("-blockmintxfee", "")));
    }
    
    
    if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-dustrelayfee"))
    {