diff --git a/plugins/gdb/unittests/test_gdb.cpp b/plugins/gdb/unittests/test_gdb.cpp
--- a/plugins/gdb/unittests/test_gdb.cpp
+++ b/plugins/gdb/unittests/test_gdb.cpp
@@ -978,6 +978,11 @@
 void GdbTest::testAttach()
 {
     SKIP_IF_ATTACH_FORBIDDEN();
+#ifdef Q_OS_FREEBSD
+    // Despite successful attach GDB MI spits out a error message "Can't allocate registers". This gets caught by KDevMI layer and gets interpreted as error.
+    // Upstream PR: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23464
+    QSKIP("GDB on FreeBSD produces an unexpected error message, on which KDevelop chokes");
+#endif
 
     QString fileName = findSourceFile(QStringLiteral("debugeeslow.cpp"));
 
@@ -1007,6 +1012,11 @@
 void GdbTest::testManualAttach()
 {
     SKIP_IF_ATTACH_FORBIDDEN();
+#ifdef Q_OS_FREEBSD
+    // Despite successful attach GDB MI spits out a error message "Can't allocate registers". This gets caught by KDevMI layer and gets interpreted as error.
+    // Upstream PR: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23464
+    QSKIP("GDB on FreeBSD produces an unexpected error message, on which KDevelop chokes");
+#endif
 
     QString fileName = findSourceFile(QStringLiteral("debugeeslow.cpp"));