diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
index 688c9e300ed..a9652f4da3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ at-spi2-core atk dbus glib libxml2 ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "No test data file provided"
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
index ba34e7f5f3f..9bbde08023b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja pkgconfig gobjectIntrospection ];
   buildInputs = [ dbus glib libX11 libXtst libXi ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "AT-SPI: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus. Is at-spi-bus-launcher running?"
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnice/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnice/default.nix
index cdf93b0b2ff..1f58545574c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnice/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnice/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ gst_all_1.gstreamer gst_all_1.gst-plugins-base gnutls ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ glib gupnp-igd ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "fatal error: nice/agent.h: No such file or directory"
+
   meta = {
     homepage = https://nice.freedesktop.org/wiki/;
     description = "The GLib ICE implementation";