diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/models/llava.py b/python/sglang/srt/models/llava.py
index c76312c0a833..2d1e69dbcdfd 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/models/llava.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/models/llava.py
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@
 )
 from sglang.srt.utils import add_prefix, flatten_nested_list, logger
 
+_KNOWN_BROKEN_AUTOMODEL_CONFIG = "VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig"
+_KNOWN_BROKEN_AUTOMODEL_ERROR = "Could not find VoxtralRealtimeTextModel"
+
 
 class LlavaBaseForCausalLM(nn.Module):
     def pad_input_ids(self, input_ids: List[int], image_inputs: MultimodalInputs):
@@ -657,7 +660,22 @@ def _config_cls_name_to_arch_name_mapping(
     ) -> Dict[str, str]:
         mapping = {}
         for config_cls in auto_model_type._model_mapping.keys():
-            archs = auto_model_type._model_mapping.get(config_cls, None)
+            try:
+                archs = auto_model_type._model_mapping.get(config_cls, None)
+            except ValueError as exc:
+                if (
+                    auto_model_type is not AutoModel
+                    or config_cls.__name__ != _KNOWN_BROKEN_AUTOMODEL_CONFIG
+                    or _KNOWN_BROKEN_AUTOMODEL_ERROR not in str(exc)
+                ):
+                    raise
+                logger.warning(
+                    "Skipping broken %s mapping for config %s: %s",
+                    auto_model_type.__name__,
+                    config_cls.__name__,
+                    exc,
+                )
+                continue
             if archs is not None:
                 if isinstance(archs, tuple):
                     mapping[config_cls.__name__] = tuple(
diff --git a/test/registered/unit/models/test_llava.py b/test/registered/unit/models/test_llava.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a929dcfbd811
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/registered/unit/models/test_llava.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import unittest
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+from sglang.srt.models.llava import AutoModel, LlavaForConditionalGeneration
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cuda_ci
+from sglang.test.test_utils import CustomTestCase
+
+register_cuda_ci(est_time=1, suite="stage-b-test-1-gpu-small")
+
+
+class PixtralVisionConfig:
+    pass
+
+
+class VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig:
+    pass
+
+
+class GoodConfig:
+    pass
+
+
+class PixtralVisionModel:
+    pass
+
+
+class GoodArch:
+    pass
+
+
+class FakeMapping:
+    def __init__(self, voxtral_error):
+        self.voxtral_error = voxtral_error
+
+    def keys(self):
+        return [VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig, PixtralVisionConfig, GoodConfig]
+
+    def get(self, config_cls, default=None):
+        if config_cls is VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig:
+            raise self.voxtral_error
+        if config_cls is PixtralVisionConfig:
+            return (PixtralVisionModel,)
+        if config_cls is GoodConfig:
+            return GoodArch
+        return default
+
+
+KNOWN_VOXTRAL_ERROR = ValueError(
+    "Could not find VoxtralRealtimeTextModel neither in "
+    "<module 'transformers.models.voxtral_realtime'> nor in "
+    "<module 'transformers'>!"
+)
+
+
+class TestLlavaForConditionalGeneration(CustomTestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        LlavaForConditionalGeneration._config_cls_name_to_arch_name_mapping.cache_clear()
+
+    def _build_mapping(self, mapping):
+        with patch.object(AutoModel, "_model_mapping", mapping):
+            llava_model = object.__new__(LlavaForConditionalGeneration)
+            return llava_model._config_cls_name_to_arch_name_mapping(AutoModel)
+
+    @patch("sglang.srt.models.llava.logger.warning")
+    def test_skip_known_broken_voxtral_automodel_mapping_entry(self, mock_warning):
+        mapping = self._build_mapping(FakeMapping(KNOWN_VOXTRAL_ERROR))
+
+        self.assertEqual(mapping[GoodConfig.__name__], GoodArch.__name__)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            mapping[PixtralVisionConfig.__name__], (PixtralVisionModel.__name__,)
+        )
+        self.assertNotIn(VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig.__name__, mapping)
+
+        mock_warning.assert_called_once()
+        self.assertEqual(
+            mock_warning.call_args.args,
+            (
+                "Skipping broken %s mapping for config %s: %s",
+                AutoModel.__name__,
+                VoxtralRealtimeTextConfig.__name__,
+                unittest.mock.ANY,
+            ),
+        )
+
+    def test_other_voxtral_mapping_failures_still_raise(self):
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, "some other failure"):
+            self._build_mapping(FakeMapping(ValueError("some other failure")))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()