diff --git a/wlauto/instrumentation/trace_cmd/__init__.py b/wlauto/instrumentation/trace_cmd/__init__.py
index 47296a80..b9c69814 100644
--- a/wlauto/instrumentation/trace_cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/wlauto/instrumentation/trace_cmd/__init__.py
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ class TraceCmdInstrument(Instrument):
         # Therefore timout for the pull command must also be adjusted
         # accordingly.
         self._pull_timeout = (self.stop_time - self.start_time)  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
+        if self._pull_timeout < 60:
+            self._pull_timeout = 60
         self.device.pull_file(self.output_file, context.output_directory, timeout=self._pull_timeout)
         context.add_iteration_artifact('bintrace', OUTPUT_TRACE_FILE, kind='data',
                                        description='trace-cmd generated ftrace dump.')
diff --git a/wlauto/utils/trace_cmd.py b/wlauto/utils/trace_cmd.py
index 37ce1fb9..1fbd627c 100644
--- a/wlauto/utils/trace_cmd.py
+++ b/wlauto/utils/trace_cmd.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ def sched_switch_parser(event, text):
     """
     Sched switch output may be presented in a couple of different formats. One is handled
     by a regex. The other format can *almost* be handled by the default parser, if it
-    weren't for the ``==>`` that appers in the middle.
+    weren't for the ``==>`` that appears in the middle.
     """
     if text.count('=') == 2:  # old format
         regex = re.compile(
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ def sched_switch_parser(event, text):
         )
         parser_func = regex_body_parser(regex)
         return parser_func(event, text)
-    else:  # three are more than two "=" -- new format
+    else:  # there are more than two "=" -- new format
         return default_body_parser(event, text.replace('==>', ''))