diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
index 360b457a19a84..2fed5d743e8ef 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/config.py
@@ -504,8 +504,7 @@ def get_sentence_transformer_tokenizer_config(model: str,
             repo_files = list_repo_files(model,
                                          revision=revision,
                                          token=HF_TOKEN)
-        except Exception as e:
-            logger.error("Error getting repo files", e)
+        except Exception:
             repo_files = []
 
         for config_name in sentence_transformer_config_files: