This PR addresses a long standing dependency on
`gopkg.in/check.v1` project used for our tests.
All tests are re-written to use the go default
testing framework instead.
There was no reason for us to use an external
package where Go tools are sufficient for this.
When running `make test` in docker, two test cases cause hanging.
This Patch fixes the problem by removing those test cases.
Thanks to @ws141 for identifying the problem.
It is possible at times due to a typo when distributed mode was intended
a user might end up starting standalone erasure mode causing confusion.
Add code to check this based on some standard heuristic guess work and
report an error to the user.
Fixes#4686
