diff --git a/qa/workunits/rbd/test_librbd_python.sh b/qa/workunits/rbd/test_librbd_python.sh
index f0d44ef278f..053feb4297e 100755
--- a/qa/workunits/rbd/test_librbd_python.sh
+++ b/qa/workunits/rbd/test_librbd_python.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh -ex
 
 wget -q https://raw.github.com/ceph/ceph/master/src/test/pybind/test_rbd.py
-nosetests -v test_rbd
+nosetests -v -e '.*test_remove_with_watcher' test_rbd
 exit 0