diff --git a/quint/src/quintVerifier.ts b/quint/src/quintVerifier.ts
index 8b412babb..d34626494 100644
--- a/quint/src/quintVerifier.ts
+++ b/quint/src/quintVerifier.ts
@@ -246,22 +246,18 @@ async function loadProtoDefViaReflection(): Promise<VerifyResult<ProtoPackageDef
   const serverReflectionService = reflectionProtoDescriptor.grpc.reflection.v1alpha.ServerReflection
   const reflectionClient = new serverReflectionService(APALACHE_SERVER_URI, grpc.credentials.createInsecure())
 
-  // Query reflection endpoint (retry if server is unreachable)
-  return retryWithTimeout(
-    () =>
-      new Promise<ServerReflectionResponse>((resolve, reject) => {
-        const call = reflectionClient.ServerReflectionInfo()
-        call.on('data', (r: ServerReflectionResponse) => {
-          call.end()
-          resolve(r)
-        })
-        call.on('error', (e: grpc.StatusObject) => reject(e))
+  // Query reflection endpoint
+  return new Promise<ServerReflectionResponse>((resolve, reject) => {
+    const call = reflectionClient.ServerReflectionInfo()
+    call.on('data', (r: ServerReflectionResponse) => {
+      call.end()
+      resolve(r)
+    })
+    call.on('error', (e: grpc.StatusObject) => reject(e))
 
-        call.write({ file_containing_symbol: 'shai.cmdExecutor.CmdExecutor' })
-      })
-  ).then(response =>
+    call.write({ file_containing_symbol: 'shai.cmdExecutor.CmdExecutor' })
+  }).then(protoDefResponse => {
     // Construct a proto definition of the reflection response.
-    response.chain((protoDefResponse: ServerReflectionResponse) => {
       if ('error_response' in protoDefResponse) {
         return err(
           `Apalache gRPC endpoint is corrupted. Could not extract proto file: ${protoDefResponse.error_response.error_message}`
@@ -275,8 +271,8 @@ async function loadProtoDefViaReflection(): Promise<VerifyResult<ProtoPackageDef
 
       // Use proto-loader to load the FileDescriptorProto wrapped in a FileDescriptorSet
       return right(proto.loadFileDescriptorSetFromObject({ file: fileDescriptorProtos }, grpcStubOptions))
-    })
-  )
+    },
+    error => err(`Error querying reflection endpoint: ${error}`))
 }
 
 function loadGrpcClient(protoDef: ProtoPackageDefinition): AsyncCmdExecutor {
@@ -284,7 +280,8 @@ function loadGrpcClient(protoDef: ProtoPackageDefinition): AsyncCmdExecutor {
   // The cast thru `unkown` lets us convince the type system of anything
   // See https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/type-system/type-assertion#double-assertion
   const pkg = protoDescriptor.shai as unknown as ShaiPkg
-  const stub = new pkg.cmdExecutor.CmdExecutor(APALACHE_SERVER_URI, grpc.credentials.createInsecure())
+  const stub: any = new pkg.cmdExecutor.CmdExecutor(APALACHE_SERVER_URI, grpc.credentials.createInsecure())
+  console.log(`Connectivity state: ${stub.getChannel().getConnectivityState(true)}`)
   const impl: AsyncCmdExecutor = {
     run: promisify((data: RunRequest, cb: AsyncCallBack<any>) => stub.run(data, cb)),
     ping: promisify((cb: AsyncCallBack<void>) => stub.ping({}, cb)),