Revert "Do not reload config when queue is not ready"

This reverts commit a3cf8a61980a84ae710b15cb93d9a2a7423d93cf.

Breaks the test on stable-3.0. This should be re-done after the
tests have been backported to stable-2.16.

Change-Id: I147ee42cf3607aa1943a5f57070687a9f0948036