[3.12] gh-105436: Ignore unrelated errors when checking empty env (GH-105742) (#105756)

gh-105436: Ignore unrelated errors when checking empty env (GH-105742)
(cherry picked from commit 4cefe3cf10f498c0927ae4fdba4880d5a64826e4)

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>