diff --git a/lmdb-s390-check.patch b/lmdb-s390-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d19456c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lmdb-s390-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+The s390 arch needs a pause between accesing the database
+
+diff -up liblmdb/Makefile.old liblmdb/Makefile
+--- liblmdb/Makefile.old	2014-06-26 09:34:24.593559711 +0200
++++ liblmdb/Makefile	2014-06-26 09:34:48.131007841 +0200
+@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ clean:
+ 
+ test:	all
+ 	mkdir testdb
+-	./mtest && ./mdb_stat testdb
++	./mtest
++	sleep 1
++	./mdb_stat testdb
+ 
+ liblmdb.a:	mdb.o midl.o
+ 	ar rs $@ mdb.o midl.o
diff --git a/lmdb.spec b/lmdb.spec
index 2029aa9..1e9526a 100644
--- a/lmdb.spec
+++ b/lmdb.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           lmdb
 Version:        0.9.11
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Summary:        Memory-mapped key-value database
 
 License:        OpenLDAP
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ URL:            http://symas.com/mdb/
 Source:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 # Patch description in the corresponding file
 Patch0: lmdb-make.patch
+Patch1: lmdb-s390-check.patch
 
 BuildRequires: doxygen
 
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ The %{name}-doc package contains automatically generated documentation for %{nam
 %prep
 %setup -q -n lib%{name}
 %patch0 -p1 -b .make
+%patch1 -p1 -b .s390-check
 
 
 %build
@@ -93,6 +95,9 @@ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD make test
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jun 26 2014 Jan Stanek <jstanek@redhat.com> - 0.9.11-3
+- Added delay in testing which was needed on s390* arches (#1104232)
+
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.11-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild