diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ef7f2882b7..47a6d90d27 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ v.mod linguist-language=V
 .vdocignore linguist-language=ignore
 
 Dockerfile.* linguist-language=Dockerfile
-vlib/v/tests/runes.txt binary
diff --git a/vlib/builtin/input_rune_iterator_test.v b/vlib/builtin/input_rune_iterator_test.v
index f5667b0262..e121ead2ba 100644
--- a/vlib/builtin/input_rune_iterator_test.v
+++ b/vlib/builtin/input_rune_iterator_test.v
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 // vtest build: !windows
+// vtest retry: 2
 import os
 import time
 
diff --git a/vlib/v/tests/runes.txt b/vlib/v/tests/runes.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ab946b5e6..0000000000
--- a/vlib/v/tests/runes.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
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