diff --git a/src/server/frames.ts b/src/server/frames.ts
index 8d4045bf2eef9..2198d549c6f45 100644
--- a/src/server/frames.ts
+++ b/src/server/frames.ts
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ export class Frame extends SdkObject {
     const data = this._contextData.get(options.mainWorld ? 'main' : info.world)!;
 
     return controller.run(async progress => {
+      progress.log(`waiting for selector "${selector}"`);
       const rerunnableTask = new RerunnableTask(data, progress, injectedScript => {
         return injectedScript.evaluateHandle((injected, { info, taskData, callbackText, querySelectorAll, logScale }) => {
           const callback = injected.eval(callbackText) as DomTaskBody<T, R>;
diff --git a/src/test/matchers/toMatchText.ts b/src/test/matchers/toMatchText.ts
index fa71fc3baf997..a7280c5f2ba8b 100644
--- a/src/test/matchers/toMatchText.ts
+++ b/src/test/matchers/toMatchText.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ export async function toMatchText(
 
   const { pass, received, log } = await query(this.isNot, timeout);
   const stringSubstring = options.matchSubstring ? 'substring' : 'string';
+  const receivedString = received || '';
   const message = pass
     ? () =>
       typeof expected === 'string'
@@ -72,17 +73,17 @@ export async function toMatchText(
         '\n\n' +
         `Expected ${stringSubstring}: not ${this.utils.printExpected(expected)}\n` +
         `Received string: ${printReceivedStringContainExpectedSubstring(
-            received!,
-            received!.indexOf(expected),
+            receivedString,
+            receivedString.indexOf(expected),
             expected.length,
-        )}`
+        )}` + callLogText(log)
         : this.utils.matcherHint(matcherName, undefined, undefined, matcherOptions) +
         '\n\n' +
         `Expected pattern: not ${this.utils.printExpected(expected)}\n` +
         `Received string: ${printReceivedStringContainExpectedResult(
-            received!,
+            receivedString,
             typeof expected.exec === 'function'
-              ? expected.exec(received!)
+              ? expected.exec(receivedString)
               : null,
         )}` + callLogText(log)
     : () => {
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ export async function toMatchText(
         '\n\n' +
         this.utils.printDiffOrStringify(
             expected,
-            received,
+            receivedString,
             labelExpected,
             labelReceived,
             this.expand !== false,
@@ -105,10 +106,6 @@ export async function toMatchText(
   return { message, pass };
 }
 
-export function normalizeWhiteSpace(s: string) {
-  return s.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
-}
-
 export function toExpectedTextValues(items: (string | RegExp)[], options: { matchSubstring?: boolean, normalizeWhiteSpace?: boolean } = {}): ExpectedTextValue[] {
   return items.map(i => ({
     string: isString(i) ? i : undefined,
diff --git a/tests/inspector/pause.spec.ts b/tests/inspector/pause.spec.ts
index d1a096845c9cd..04cc6c34d0314 100644
--- a/tests/inspector/pause.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/inspector/pause.spec.ts
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ it.describe('pause', () => {
     expect(await sanitizeLog(recorderPage)).toEqual([
       'page.pause- XXms',
       'page.isChecked(button)- XXms',
+      'waiting for selector "button"',
       'selector resolved to <button onclick=\"console.log(1)\">Submit</button>',
       'error: Not a checkbox or radio button',
     ]);
diff --git a/tests/page/locator-convenience.spec.ts b/tests/page/locator-convenience.spec.ts
index ddc96fc01db80..90220533a3e1d 100644
--- a/tests/page/locator-convenience.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/page/locator-convenience.spec.ts
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ it('innerText should throw', async ({ page, server }) => {
   expect(error2.message).toContain('Not an HTMLElement');
 });
 
+it('innerText should produce log', async ({ page, server }) => {
+  await page.setContent(`<div>Hello</div>`);
+  const locator = page.locator('span');
+  const error = await locator.innerText({ timeout: 1000 }).catch(e => e);
+  expect(error.message).toContain('waiting for selector "span"');
+});
+
 it('textContent should work', async ({ page, server }) => {
   await page.goto(`${server.PREFIX}/dom.html`);
   const locator = page.locator('#inner');
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.text.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.text.spec.ts
index 06f25e3f046b5..c46190915d718 100644
--- a/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.text.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/playwright.expect.text.spec.ts
@@ -312,5 +312,49 @@ test('should print nice error for toHaveText', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
   expect(output).toContain('Pending operations:');
   expect(output).toContain('Error: expect(received).toHaveText(expected)');
   expect(output).toContain('Expected string: "Text"');
-  expect(output).toContain('Received string: undefined');
+  expect(output).toContain('Received string: ""');
+  expect(output).toContain('waiting for selector "no-such-thing"');
+});
+
+test('should print expected/received on Ctrl+C', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  test.skip(process.platform === 'win32', 'No sending SIGINT on Windows');
+
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'a.test.ts': `
+      const { test } = pwt;
+
+      test('times out waiting for text', async ({ page }) => {
+        await page.setContent('<div id=node>Text content</div>');
+        const promise = expect(page.locator('#node')).toHaveText('Text 2');
+        await new Promise(f => setTimeout(f, 500));
+        console.log('\\n%%SEND-SIGINT%%');
+        await promise;
+      });
+      `,
+  }, { workers: 1 }, {}, { sendSIGINTAfter: 1 });
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(130);
+  expect(result.passed).toBe(0);
+  expect(result.skipped).toBe(1);
+  expect(stripAscii(result.output)).toContain('Expected string: "Text 2"');
+  expect(stripAscii(result.output)).toContain('Received string: "Text content"');
+});
+
+test('should support not.toHaveText when selector does not match', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'a.test.ts': `
+      const { test } = pwt;
+
+      test('fails', async ({ page }) => {
+        await page.setContent('<div>hello</div>');
+        await expect(page.locator('span')).not.toHaveText('hello', { timeout: 1000 });
+      });
+      `,
+  }, { workers: 1 });
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(1);
+  expect(result.passed).toBe(0);
+  expect(result.failed).toBe(1);
+  const output = stripAscii(result.output);
+  expect(output).toContain('Expected string: not "hello"');
+  expect(output).toContain('Received string: ""');
+  expect(output).toContain('waiting for selector "span"');
 });