diff --git a/tractor/_trionics.py b/tractor/_trionics.py
index 894ab7d..eea3aae 100644
--- a/tractor/_trionics.py
+++ b/tractor/_trionics.py
@@ -252,6 +252,12 @@ async def _open_and_supervise_one_cancels_all_nursery(
                         f"Waiting on subactors {anursery._children} "
                         "to complete"
                     )
+
+                    # Last bit before first nursery block ends in the case
+                    # where we didn't error in the caller's scope
+                    log.debug("Waiting on all subactors to complete")
+                    anursery._join_procs.set()
+
                 except BaseException as err:
                     # if the caller's scope errored then we activate our
                     # one-cancels-all supervisor strategy (don't
@@ -292,11 +298,6 @@ async def _open_and_supervise_one_cancels_all_nursery(
                     else:
                         raise
 
-                # Last bit before first nursery block ends in the case
-                # where we didn't error in the caller's scope
-                log.debug("Waiting on all subactors to complete")
-                anursery._join_procs.set()
-
                 # ria_nursery scope end
 
         # XXX: do we need a `trio.Cancelled` catch here as well?