diff --git a/test/shell/file-mode.sh b/test/shell/file-mode.sh
index 07ddc7dc..9ab16406 100755
--- a/test/shell/file-mode.sh
+++ b/test/shell/file-mode.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 set -x
 
 # run till completion
-timeout --kill-after=20s 15s ./mgmt run --yaml file-mode.yaml --converged-timeout=5 --no-watch --tmp-prefix &
+timeout --kill-after=40s 35s ./mgmt run --yaml file-mode.yaml --converged-timeout=5 --no-watch --tmp-prefix &
 pid=$!
 wait $pid	# get exit status
 e=$?