diff --git a/dev-perl/Event-RPC/Event-RPC-1.50.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/Event-RPC/Event-RPC-1.50.0.ebuild
index 6896848619b39..70ab123d96cd9 100644
--- a/dev-perl/Event-RPC/Event-RPC-1.50.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-perl/Event-RPC/Event-RPC-1.50.0.ebuild
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@ RDEPEND="|| ( dev-perl/Event dev-perl/glib-perl )
 	virtual/perl-Storable"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 
-SRC_TEST="do"
+SRC_TEST=skip
+# tests hang, at least on 5.24... probably trying to do something network-related
+# needs more investigation