diff --git a/h5py/tests/test_file2.py b/h5py/tests/test_file2.py
index a0507c6..cf6b88f 100644
--- a/h5py/tests/test_file2.py
+++ b/h5py/tests/test_file2.py
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ class TestFileObj(TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(Exception, h5py.File, self,
                           driver='fileobj', mode='x')
 
+    @ut.skip("Incompletely closed files can cause segfaults")
     def test_exception_read(self):
 
         class BrokenBytesIO(io.BytesIO):
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ class TestFileObj(TestCase):
         f.create_dataset('test', data=list(range(12)))
         self.assertRaises(Exception, list, f['test'])
 
+    @ut.skip("Incompletely closed files can cause segfaults")
     def test_exception_write(self):
 
         class BrokenBytesIO(io.BytesIO):
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ class TestFileObj(TestCase):
         f = h5py.File(fileobj, 'w')
         fileobj.close()
         self.assertRaises(Exception, f.close)
-
+    @ut.skip("Incompletely closed files can cause segfaults")
     def test_exception_writeonly(self):
         # HDF5 expects read & write access to a file it's writing;
         # check that we get the correct exception on a write-only file object.
@@ -243,7 +245,7 @@ class TestFileObj(TestCase):
             group = f.create_group("group")
             group.create_dataset("data", data='foo', dtype=h5py.string_dtype())
 
-
+    @ut.skip("Incompletely closed files can cause segfaults")
     def test_method_vanish(self):
         fileobj = io.BytesIO()
         f = h5py.File(fileobj, 'w')