diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
index 48a173e..97a541a 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndex.java
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@
     @Override
     public synchronized void deactivate() throws HyracksDataException {
         if (!isOpen && wasOpen) {
+            //TODO(ali): should return instead of throwing similar to other indexes
             throw new HyracksDataException("Failed to deactivate the index since it is already deactivated.");
         }
         btree.deactivate();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexLifecycleTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexLifecycleTest.java
index de8bdc8..c0882a7 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexLifecycleTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-test-support/src/main/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/common/AbstractIndexLifecycleTest.java
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
         }
     }
 
-    @Test(expected = HyracksDataException.class)
+    @Test
     public void invalidSequenceTest6() throws Exception {
         index.create();
         index.activate();
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexLifecycleTest.java b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexLifecycleTest.java
index 1b17ef9..2150bdb 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexLifecycleTest.java
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-tests/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex-test/src/test/java/org/apache/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/ondisk/OnDiskInvertedIndexLifecycleTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparatorFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ITypeTraits;
+import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
 import org.apache.hyracks.api.io.FileReference;
 import org.apache.hyracks.data.std.accessors.IntegerBinaryComparatorFactory;
 import org.apache.hyracks.data.std.accessors.UTF8StringBinaryComparatorFactory;
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.api.IInvertedListBuilder;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.common.LSMInvertedIndexTestHarness;
 import org.apache.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.ondisk.fixedsize.FixedSizeElementInvertedListBuilder;
+import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class OnDiskInvertedIndexLifecycleTest extends AbstractIndexLifecycleTest {
 
@@ -88,4 +90,17 @@
     protected void clearCheckableInsertions() throws Exception {
         // Do nothing.
     }
+
+    @Test(expected = HyracksDataException.class)
+    @Override
+    public void invalidSequenceTest6() throws Exception {
+        index.create();
+        index.activate();
+        index.deactivate();
+        try {
+            index.deactivate();
+        } finally {
+            index.destroy();
+        }
+    }
 }