diff --git a/src/test/test-blockdev-util.c b/src/test/test-blockdev-util.c
index b97783b41f..134386c3f6 100644
--- a/src/test/test-blockdev-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-blockdev-util.c
@@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ static void test_path_is_encrypted_one(const char *p, int expect) {
         int r;
 
         r = path_is_encrypted(p);
-        if (r == -ENOENT || ERRNO_IS_NEG_PRIVILEGE(r))
+        if (IN_SET(r, -ENOENT, -ELOOP) || ERRNO_IS_NEG_PRIVILEGE(r))
                 /* This might fail, if btrfs is used and we run in a container. In that case we cannot
                  * resolve the device node paths that BTRFS_IOC_DEV_INFO returns, because the device nodes
                  * are unlikely to exist in the container. But if we can't stat() them we cannot determine
                  * the dev_t of them, and thus cannot figure out if they are encrypted. Hence let's just
-                 * ignore ENOENT here. Also skip the test if we lack privileges. */
+                 * ignore ENOENT here. Also skip the test if we lack privileges.
+                 * ELOOP might happen if the mount point is a symlink, as seen with under
+                 * some rpm-ostree distros */
                 return;
         assert_se(r >= 0);
 
diff --git a/test/test-fstab-generator.sh b/test/test-fstab-generator.sh
index 50ba321b9c..af8fa7c226 100755
--- a/test/test-fstab-generator.sh
+++ b/test/test-fstab-generator.sh
@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ test_one() (
 )
 
 for f in "$src"/test-*.input; do
+    # If /mnt is a symlink, then the expected output from this
+    # test scenario will not match the actual output
+    if test "$f" = "$src/test-18-options.fstab.input" -a "$(readlink /mnt)" != "/mnt"
+    then
+        echo "Skip $f because /mnt is a symlink"
+        continue
+    fi
+
     test_one "$f" yes
     test_one "$f" no
 done
diff --git a/test/test-systemd-tmpfiles.py b/test/test-systemd-tmpfiles.py
index 77ef53b983..37a5e9ef3e 100755
--- a/test/test-systemd-tmpfiles.py
+++ b/test/test-systemd-tmpfiles.py
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ except AttributeError:
 exe_with_args = sys.argv[1:]
 temp_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='test-systemd-tmpfiles.')
 
+# If /tmp isn't owned by either 'root' or the current user
+# systemd-tmpfiles will exit with "Detected unsafe path transition"
+# breaking this test
+tmpowner = os.stat("/tmp").st_uid
+if tmpowner != 0 and tmpowner != os.getuid():
+    print("Skip: /tmp is not owned by 'root' or current user")
+    sys.exit(EXIT_TEST_SKIP)
+
 def test_line(line, *, user, returncode=EX_DATAERR, extra={}):
     args = ['--user'] if user else []
     print('Running {} on {!r}'.format(' '.join(exe_with_args + args), line))