diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 906a707ac79..3655a019cb9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ jobs:
             timeout-minutes: 120
             file-env: './ci/test/00_setup_env_native_nowallet_libbitcoinkernel.sh'
 
-          - name: 'no IPC, i686, DEBUG'
+          - name: 'i686, no IPC'
             cirrus-runner: 'ghcr.io/cirruslabs/ubuntu-runner-amd64:24.04-md'
             fallback-runner: 'ubuntu-24.04'
             timeout-minutes: 120
diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_no_ipc.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_no_ipc.sh
index 4da38d9bb99..c32e68cb75b 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_no_ipc.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_i686_no_ipc.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ export GOAL="install"
 export CI_LIMIT_STACK_SIZE=1
 export TEST_RUNNER_EXTRA="--v2transport --usecli"
 export BITCOIN_CONFIG="\
+ --preset=dev-mode \
+ -DENABLE_IPC=OFF \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
  -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER='clang;-m32' \
  -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER='clang++;-m32' \