diff --git a/hsds/chunk_sn.py b/hsds/chunk_sn.py
index 0cc62356..01809281 100755
--- a/hsds/chunk_sn.py
+++ b/hsds/chunk_sn.py
@@ -635,7 +635,8 @@ async def _doHyperslabWrite(app,
 
     if crawler_status not in (200, 201):
         msg = f"crawler failed for page: {page_number} with status: {crawler_status}"
-        log.warn(msg)
+        log.error(msg)
+        raise HTTPInternalServerError()
     else:
         log.info("crawler write_chunk_hyperslab successful")
 
diff --git a/tests/integ/vlen_test.py b/tests/integ/vlen_test.py
index 4fdc2dcc..fd578b11 100755
--- a/tests/integ/vlen_test.py
+++ b/tests/integ/vlen_test.py
@@ -711,55 +711,6 @@ def testPutVLenCompoundBinary(self):
                 # strings are showing up as bytes in the response
                 self.assertEqual(req_item, rsp_item.decode())
 
-    def testPutVLenUTF8(self):
-        # Test PUT value for 1d dataset with vlen seq of vlen utf-8 strings
-        print("testPutVLenUTF8", self.base_domain)
-
-        headers = helper.getRequestHeaders(domain=self.base_domain)
-        req = self.endpoint + "/"
-
-        # Get root uuid
-        rsp = self.session.get(req, headers=headers)
-        self.assertEqual(rsp.status_code, 200)
-        rspJson = json.loads(rsp.text)
-        root_uuid = rspJson["root"]
-        helper.validateId(root_uuid)
-
-        # create dataset
-        vlen_utf8_type = {
-            "charSet": "H5T_CSET_UTF8",
-            "class": "H5T_STRING",
-            "length": "H5T_VARIABLE",
-            "strPad": "H5T_STR_NULLPAD",
-        }
-
-        datatype = {"class": "H5T_VLEN", "base": vlen_utf8_type}
-
-        payload = {
-            "type": datatype,
-            "shape": "H5S_SCALAR",
-        }
-
-        req = self.endpoint + "/datasets"
-        rsp = self.session.post(req, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
-        self.assertEqual(rsp.status_code, 201)  # create dataset
-        rspJson = json.loads(rsp.text)
-        dset_uuid = rspJson["id"]
-        self.assertTrue(helper.validateId(dset_uuid))
-
-        # link new dataset as 'dset'
-        name = "dset"
-        req = self.endpoint + "/groups/" + root_uuid + "/links/" + name
-        payload = {"id": dset_uuid}
-        rsp = self.session.put(req, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
-        self.assertEqual(rsp.status_code, 201)
-
-        data = u"one: \u4e00"
-        payload = {"value": data}
-        req = self.endpoint + "/datasets/" + dset_uuid + "/value"
-        rsp = self.session.put(req, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
-        self.assertEqual(rsp.status_code, 200)
-
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # setup test files