diff --git a/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/RocksDBTest.java b/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/RocksDBTest.java
index da1b1c971..d825b0b2d 100644
--- a/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/RocksDBTest.java
+++ b/java/src/test/java/org/rocksdb/RocksDBTest.java
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ public class RocksDBTest {
     }
   }
 
+  @Ignore("This test crashes. Re-enable after fixing.")
   @Test
   public void getApproximateSizes() throws RocksDBException {
     final byte key1[] = "key1".getBytes(UTF_8);