diff --git a/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.result b/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.result
index fb44c3ea3ee..3e72f0aaff4 100644
--- a/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.result
+++ b/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.result
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+flush tables;
 #
 # Check that we don't write any data to wrong or not existing datadir
 #
diff --git a/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.test b/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.test
index 55131e9e4eb..2bd332c1484 100644
--- a/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.test
+++ b/mysql-test/main/mysqld--help-aria.test
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Check errors from mysqld--help when providing different datadir
 #
+flush tables;
 
 --let $args=--table-cache=5 --max-connections=10 --log-warnings=1 --silent-startup --lower-case-table-names=1 --help --verbose