diff --git a/tests/unit/common.py b/tests/unit/common.py
index eacb7bc85e4a..69ba4c2708ac 100644
--- a/tests/unit/common.py
+++ b/tests/unit/common.py
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ def _launch_daemonic_procs(self, num_procs):
             # Currently we see memory leak for tests that reuse distributed environment
             print("Ignoring reuse_dist_env and forcibly setting it to False")
             warn_reuse_dist_env = True
+        self.reuse_dist_env = False
 
         if self.reuse_dist_env:
             if num_procs not in self._pool_cache: