diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3dbdec3..de42252 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ patroni (1.5.4-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * debian/config.yml.in: Set pg_hba in bootstrap.dcs.postgresql section.  This
     way, it will be picked up by replicas as well.  As the pg_hba.conf file is
     created from scratch in this case, also add the default values.
+  * debian/tests/acceptance: Wait 5 seconds after starting zookeeper.
 
  -- Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers <team+postgresql@tracker.debian.org>  Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:40:18 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/tests/acceptance b/debian/tests/acceptance
index 1e87bd3..f7d9a9a 100755
--- a/debian/tests/acceptance
+++ b/debian/tests/acceptance
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ then
                 sed -i -e 's/#JAVA_OPTS=""/JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"/' /etc/default/zookeeper
                 /etc/init.d/zookeeper start
                 DCS=zookeeper
+		# let Java have some more time to startup
+		sleep 5
         fi
 else
         SU='bash -c'