diff --git a/vcl/source/gdi/virdev.cxx b/vcl/source/gdi/virdev.cxx
index 2e8415de8656..35595507ea9c 100644
--- a/vcl/source/gdi/virdev.cxx
+++ b/vcl/source/gdi/virdev.cxx
@@ -184,15 +184,6 @@ VirtualDevice::~VirtualDevice()
 
     ImplSVData* pSVData = ImplGetSVData();
 
-#if defined(DBG_UTIL) && defined(MACOSX)
-    // OutputDevice::ImplReleaseGraphics() requires the yield mutex to be
-    // held, hmm. For some reason this is a problem only in a dbgutil build on
-    // OS X, when this stuff gets called when soffice is about to exit, from
-    // editeng/source/editeng/eerdll.cxx. If this code is used on Linux, we
-    // again get a hang in some/all of the subsequentchecks.
-    pSVData->mpDefInst->AcquireYieldMutex( 1 );
-#endif
-
     ImplReleaseGraphics();
 
     if ( mpVirDev )