diff --git a/test/TEST-01-BASIC/test.sh b/test/TEST-01-BASIC/test.sh
index b6b474393da..c7099936388 100755
--- a/test/TEST-01-BASIC/test.sh
+++ b/test/TEST-01-BASIC/test.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ EOF
     )
     setup_nspawn_root
 
+    # mask some services that we do not want to run in these tests
+    ln -s /dev/null $initdir/etc/systemd/system/systemd-hwdb-update.service
+    ln -s /dev/null $initdir/etc/systemd/system/systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
+    ln -s /dev/null $initdir/etc/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service
+    ln -s /dev/null $initdir/etc/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.socket
+    ln -s /dev/null $initdir/etc/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service
+
     ddebug "umount $TESTDIR/root"
     umount $TESTDIR/root
 }