diff --git a/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/AssertionHandler.cpp b/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/AssertionHandler.cpp
index cb8ad983ef..f49e04f4fd 100644
--- a/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/AssertionHandler.cpp
+++ b/stepmania/src/archutils/Unix/AssertionHandler.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ extern "C" void __assert_fail( const char *assertion, const char *file, unsigned
 #else
 	/* It'd be nice to just throw an exception here, but throwing an exception
 	 * through C code sometimes explodes. */
-	RageException::CallCleanupHandler( error );
 
 	DoEmergencyShutdown();
 
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ extern "C" void __assert_perror_fail( int errnum, const char *file, unsigned int
 	Checkpoints::SetCheckpoint( file, line, error );
 	sm_crash( strerror(errnum) );
 #else
-	RageException::CallCleanupHandler( error );
 
 	DoEmergencyShutdown();
 
@@ -57,8 +55,6 @@ void UnexpectedExceptionHandler()
 	const RString error = ssprintf("Unhandled exception: %s", iStatus? pName:pDem);
 #if defined(CRASH_HANDLER)
 	sm_crash( error );
-#else
-	RageException::CallCleanupHandler( error );
 #endif
 }