diff --git a/development/autotests/ignoredTests b/development/autotests/ignoredTests
index 0c5f50e6a4..c22198d057 100644
--- a/development/autotests/ignoredTests
+++ b/development/autotests/ignoredTests
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ Sublabel: lyx_wontfix
 #       (we only use "recent" lyx2lyx roundtrip to test compilation.
 export/doc/de/UserGuide_lyx2(2|3)
 
+# perhaps related to the above de/UserGuide issue:
+# gives the following index error:
+# ERROR: CHAR: index 0 should be less than the length of the string
+export/doc/fr/EmbeddedObjects_lyx(2|3)
+
 # (https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg218252.html)
 # from Kornel:
 # Exporting to 2.3 format and exporting from the exported differ in extra lines and