diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextStoredFieldsWriter.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextStoredFieldsWriter.java
index 6a9b223c2a5..1e97ebd8cee 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextStoredFieldsWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextStoredFieldsWriter.java
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ public class SimpleTextStoredFieldsWriter extends StoredFieldsWriter {
   public void abort() {
     try {
       close();
-    } catch (IOException ignored) {}
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {}
     IOUtils.deleteFilesIgnoringExceptions(directory, IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", FIELDS_EXTENSION));
   }
 
diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextTermVectorsWriter.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextTermVectorsWriter.java
index 673eceae88e..486eda58820 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextTermVectorsWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextTermVectorsWriter.java
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public class SimpleTextTermVectorsWriter extends TermVectorsWriter {
   public void abort() {
     try {
       close();
-    } catch (IOException ignored) {}
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {}
     IOUtils.deleteFilesIgnoringExceptions(directory, IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", VECTORS_EXTENSION));
   }
 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40StoredFieldsWriter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40StoredFieldsWriter.java
index 8af95467ee3..a80cea7362d 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40StoredFieldsWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40StoredFieldsWriter.java
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ public final class Lucene40StoredFieldsWriter extends StoredFieldsWriter {
   public void abort() {
     try {
       close();
-    } catch (IOException ignored) {}
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {}
     IOUtils.deleteFilesIgnoringExceptions(directory,
         IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", FIELDS_EXTENSION),
         IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", FIELDS_INDEX_EXTENSION));
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40TermVectorsWriter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40TermVectorsWriter.java
index 822fe4fc461..36529b63fff 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40TermVectorsWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene40/Lucene40TermVectorsWriter.java
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ public final class Lucene40TermVectorsWriter extends TermVectorsWriter {
   public void abort() {
     try {
       close();
-    } catch (IOException ignored) {}
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {}
     IOUtils.deleteFilesIgnoringExceptions(directory, IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", Lucene40TermVectorsReader.VECTORS_INDEX_EXTENSION),
         IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", Lucene40TermVectorsReader.VECTORS_DOCUMENTS_EXTENSION),
         IndexFileNames.segmentFileName(segment, "", Lucene40TermVectorsReader.VECTORS_FIELDS_EXTENSION));