diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
index 8374629b5d45a96be900bb50c2860b0d77f8d43d..17e7044c46ecb0cbb7ecf235a006846a4f2ec25e 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2Suites.scala
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService.Client
 import org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.ThriftCLIServiceClient
 import org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol
 import org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket
-import org.scalatest.BeforeAndAfterAll
+import org.scalatest.{Ignore, BeforeAndAfterAll}
 
 import org.apache.spark.{Logging, SparkFunSuite}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ object TestData {
   val smallKvWithNull = getTestDataFilePath("small_kv_with_null.txt")
 }
 
+@Ignore // SPARK-9606
 class HiveThriftBinaryServerSuite extends HiveThriftJdbcTest {
   override def mode: ServerMode.Value = ServerMode.binary
 
@@ -379,6 +380,7 @@ class HiveThriftBinaryServerSuite extends HiveThriftJdbcTest {
   }
 }
 
+@Ignore // SPARK-9606
 class HiveThriftHttpServerSuite extends HiveThriftJdbcTest {
   override def mode: ServerMode.Value = ServerMode.http