diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/PeerRecoveryTargetService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/PeerRecoveryTargetService.java
index 1ba854fdb2b..6b1a893667f 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/PeerRecoveryTargetService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/recovery/PeerRecoveryTargetService.java
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ public class PeerRecoveryTargetService implements IndexEventListener {
             logger.trace("{} preparing for file-based recovery from [{}]", recoveryTarget.shardId(), recoveryTarget.sourceNode());
         } else {
             logger.trace(
-                "{} preparing for sequence-number-based recovery starting at local checkpoint [{}] from [{}]",
+                "{} preparing for sequence-number-based recovery starting at sequence number [{}] from [{}]",
                 recoveryTarget.shardId(),
                 startingSeqNo,
                 recoveryTarget.sourceNode());
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/discovery/ClusterDisruptionIT.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/discovery/ClusterDisruptionIT.java
index 13911f56400..76e519f922e 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/discovery/ClusterDisruptionIT.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/discovery/ClusterDisruptionIT.java
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ public class ClusterDisruptionIT extends AbstractDisruptionTestCase {
 
         assertAcked(prepareCreate("test")
             .setSettings(Settings.builder()
+                .put(indexSettings())
                 .put(IndexMetaData.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_SHARDS, 1 + randomInt(2))
                 .put(IndexMetaData.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS, randomInt(2))
             ));