diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namespace/TestNamespaceAuditor.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namespace/TestNamespaceAuditor.java
index 655da57a28e8..21e8d821d0a1 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namespace/TestNamespaceAuditor.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namespace/TestNamespaceAuditor.java
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Coprocessor;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CoprocessorEnvironment;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.DoNotRetryIOException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClassTestRule;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor;
@@ -403,9 +402,10 @@ public boolean evaluate() throws Exception {
     Collections.sort(hris, RegionInfo.COMPARATOR);
     // verify that we cannot split
     try {
-      ADMIN.split(tableTwo, Bytes.toBytes("6"));
+      ADMIN.splitRegionAsync(hris.get(1).getRegionName(), Bytes.toBytes("6")).get(10,
+        TimeUnit.SECONDS);
       fail();
-    } catch (DoNotRetryIOException e) {
+    } catch (ExecutionException e) {
       // Expected
     }
     Thread.sleep(2000);