diff --git a/p2p/constants.py b/p2p/constants.py
index a408a9863b..31e4f513f2 100644
--- a/p2p/constants.py
+++ b/p2p/constants.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 MAX_SEQUENTIAL_PEER_CONNECT = 5
 
 # Timeout used when fetching peer candidates from discovery
-REQUEST_PEER_CANDIDATE_TIMEOUT = 0.5
+REQUEST_PEER_CANDIDATE_TIMEOUT = 1
 
 # The maximum number of concurrent attempts to establis new peer connections
 MAX_CONCURRENT_CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS = 10
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_trinity_cli.py b/tests/integration/test_trinity_cli.py
index c11444260a..739a44ffee 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_trinity_cli.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_trinity_cli.py
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ async def test_web3(command, async_process_runner):
         "Started DB server process",
         "Started networking process",
         "IPC started at",
+        # Ensure we do not start making requests that depend on the networking
+        # process, before it is connected to the JSON-RPC-API
+        "EventBus Endpoint networking connecting to other Endpoint bjson-rpc-api",
     })
 
     attached_trinity = pexpect.spawn('trinity', ['attach'], logfile=sys.stdout, encoding="utf-8")
diff --git a/trinity/tools/async_process_runner.py b/trinity/tools/async_process_runner.py
index 97e4c47769..e95c9553f8 100644
--- a/trinity/tools/async_process_runner.py
+++ b/trinity/tools/async_process_runner.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import asyncio
+import logging
 import os
 import signal
 from typing import (
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
 
 
 class AsyncProcessRunner():
+    logger = logging.getLogger("trinity.tools.async_process_runner.AsyncProcessRunner")
 
     def __init__(self, debug_fn: Callable[[bytes], None] = None) -> None:
         self.debug_fn = debug_fn
@@ -64,4 +66,7 @@ async def kill_after_timeout(self, timeout_sec: int) -> None:
         raise TimeoutError(f'Killed process after {timeout_sec} seconds')
 
     def kill(self) -> None:
-        os.killpg(os.getpgid(self.proc.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
+        try:
+            os.killpg(os.getpgid(self.proc.pid), signal.SIGKILL)
+        except ProcessLookupError:
+            self.logger.info("Process %s has already disappeared", self.proc.pid)