step2

server.sh

@@ -148,8 +148,11 @@ start() {
   echo $! > "$PID_FILE"
   local pid=$!
 
-  # Wait for the port to accept connections (model load ~1.5 s).
-  for _ in $(seq 1 40); do
+  # Wait for the port to accept connections. Apart from the model load (~1.5 s)
+  # startup also re-synthesizes the start-filler clip bank (one clip per
+  # START_FILLER_TEXTS phrase, generated before the socket is bound), which can
+  # take a while with a long phrase list — hence the generous timeout.
+  for _ in $(seq 1 120); do
     if [ -n "$(listening_pid)" ]; then
       ok "started (pid $pid) — $sch://localhost:$PORT/"
       return 0
@@ -157,7 +160,7 @@ start() {
     sleep 0.5
   done
 
-  err "failed to start within ~20 s. Last log lines:"
+  err "failed to start within ~60 s. Last log lines:"
   tail -n 20 "$LOG_FILE" || true
   rm -f "$PID_FILE"
   return 1