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 
{
    LOCK(cs_main);
    return VersionBitsStateSinceHeight(chainActive.Tip(), params, pos, versionbitscache);
}
static const uint64_t MEMPOOL_DUMP_VERSION = 1;
bool LoadMempool()
{
    const CChainParams& chainparams = Params();
    int64_t nExpiryTimeout = gArgs.GetArg("-mempoolexpiry", DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_EXPIRY) * 60 * 60;
    FILE* filestr = fsbridge::fopen(GetDataDir() / "mempool.dat", "rb");
    CAutoFile file(filestr, SER_DISK, CLIENT_VERSION);
    if (file.IsNull()) {
        LogPrintf("Failed to open mempool file from disk. Continuing anyway.\n");
        return false;
    }
    int64_t count = 0;
    int64_t expired = 0;
    int64_t failed = 0;
    int64_t already_there = 0;
    int64_t nNow = GetTime();
    try {
        uint64_t version;
        file >> version;
        if (version != MEMPOOL_DUMP_VERSION) {
            return false;
        }
        uint64_t num;
        file >> num;
        while (num--) {
            CTransactionRef tx;