diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps/run-ptest
index 7e132653b0..40dbd35265 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/procps/procps/run-ptest
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 # Run testsuite which use dejagnu
 cd ./testsuite
 for tool in @DEJATOOL@; do
+    # Skip the kill test as it has a race condition where test_process
+    # can exit before the expect script reads from it, causing
+    # "spawn id not open" errors (upstream: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/423)
+    if [ "$tool" = "kill" ]; then
+        echo "SKIP: kill (flaky, upstream issue #423)"
+        continue
+    fi
     runtest -a --tool $tool --outdir ../log
 done
 cd -