diff --git a/jenkins/scripts/slurm_run.sh b/jenkins/scripts/slurm_run.sh
index c587825fa167..f0e0b062f69e 100755
--- a/jenkins/scripts/slurm_run.sh
+++ b/jenkins/scripts/slurm_run.sh
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ slurm_wait_all_ranks() {
     touch "$readyDir/rank_${SLURM_PROCID}.ready"
 
     # Bounded so a dead rank fails the stage loudly instead of hanging until the
-    # partition walltime kills it; the ceiling exceeds the 2700s pip3 retry budget
+    # partition walltime kills it. This bounds arrival skew between ranks (each
+    # rank's deadline starts after its own install finished) -- comfortably above
+    # the  ~10min skew seen in the bug -  not any single install-phase timeout;
     # in slurm_install.sh so a merely slow rank still releases the barrier.
     local timeoutSecs=3600
     local deadline=$((SECONDS + timeoutSecs))
@@ -117,10 +119,7 @@ slurm_wait_all_ranks() {
                  "all $numRanks ranks to be ready; ready: $ready/$numRanks"
             return 1
         fi
-        # One rank reports progress; all of them would spam the log every 10s.
-        if [ "$SLURM_PROCID" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "(Waiting for all $numRanks ranks to be ready) ready: $ready/$numRanks"
-        fi
+        echo "(Waiting for all $numRanks ranks to be ready) ready: $ready/$numRanks"
         sleep 10
     done
 }
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
index 625beece3457..f19cd5516d34 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ accuracy/test_llm_api_autodeploy.py::TestNemotronSuperV3::test_mtp[nvfp4_ws8_80g
 accuracy/test_llm_api_autodeploy.py::TestQwen3_5_397B_MoE::test_bf16_small[4] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6507114)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_fp8_blockscale[throughput_mtp] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6428101)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_fp8_blockscale[throughput_mtp_trtllm] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6426868)
-accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_nvfp4_multi_gpus[latency] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6561778)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_nvfp4_multi_gpus[latency_trtllmgen_adp_lmtp] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6655987)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1::test_nvfp4_multi_gpus[throughput_pp4_mtp] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6481323)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekR1LongBenchV2::test_fp8_8gpus SKIP (https://nvbugs/6621358)