diff --git a/src/operator/random/shuffle_op.cc b/src/operator/random/shuffle_op.cc
index 1bd70b1f323a..345a77171ad6 100644
--- a/src/operator/random/shuffle_op.cc
+++ b/src/operator/random/shuffle_op.cc
@@ -45,8 +45,13 @@ namespace {
 template<typename DType, typename Rand>
 void Shuffle1D(DType* const out, const index_t size, Rand* const prnd) {
   #ifdef USE_GNU_PARALLEL_SHUFFLE
-    auto rand_n = [prnd](index_t n) {
-      std::uniform_int_distribution<index_t> dist(0, n - 1);
+     /*
+      * See issue #15029: the data type of n needs to be compatible with
+      * the gcc library: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B\
+      * -v3/include/parallel/random_shuffle.h#L384
+      */
+    auto rand_n = [prnd](uint32_t n) {
+      std::uniform_int_distribution<uint32_t> dist(0, n - 1);
       return dist(*prnd);
     };
     __gnu_parallel::random_shuffle(out, out + size, rand_n);
diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_random.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_random.py
index 5e809d383cdf..4d147197a150 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_random.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_random.py
@@ -867,6 +867,8 @@ def testLarge(data, repeat):
     # Test larger arrays
     testLarge(mx.nd.arange(0, 100000).reshape((10, 10000)), 10)
     testLarge(mx.nd.arange(0, 100000).reshape((10000, 10)), 10)
+    testLarge(mx.nd.arange(0, 100000), 10)
+
 
 @with_seed()
 def test_randint():