When recovering from data dir, the node needs election timeout to elect itself to be the leader.
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ func TestSingleNodeRecovery(t *testing.T) {
c.DataDir = dataDir
e, h, _ = buildServer(t, c, id)
+ waitLeader([]*Server{e})
w, err = e.p.Watch(key, false, false, ev.Index())
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)