diff --git a/distributed/shuffle/tests/test_shuffle.py b/distributed/shuffle/tests/test_shuffle.py
index b89913b77c..3e211e1683 100644
--- a/distributed/shuffle/tests/test_shuffle.py
+++ b/distributed/shuffle/tests/test_shuffle.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 pd = pytest.importorskip("pandas")
 
 import dask.dataframe as dd
+from dask.dataframe._compat import PANDAS_GE_300
 from dask.typing import Key
 
 from distributed import (
@@ -2435,6 +2436,7 @@ async def test_handle_null_partitions(c, s, a, b):
     await assert_scheduler_cleanup(s)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.xfail(PANDAS_GE_300, reason="dask/distributed#9184", strict=True)
 @gen_cluster(client=True)
 async def test_handle_null_partitions_2(c, s, a, b):
     def make_partition(i):
@@ -2447,7 +2449,7 @@ def make_partition(i):
         ddf = dd.from_map(make_partition, range(5), meta={"a": float, "b": float})
     with dask.config.set({"dataframe.shuffle.method": "p2p"}):
         out = ddf.shuffle(on="a", ignore_index=True, force=True)
-    result, expected = c.compute([ddf, out])
+    expected, result = c.compute([ddf, out])
     del out
     result = await result
     expected = await expected