diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 8ced796b8e..f06e2f6ae5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ jobs:
 
   # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
   # ARM unit tests (no functional tests)
-  # Image: debian:bullseye
+  # Image: debian:bookworm
   # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
   arm-unit-tests:
-    name: 'ARM [unit tests, no functional tests] [bullseye]'
+    name: 'ARM [no unit tests, no functional tests] [bookwork]'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 120
     env:
diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh
index 932be4b43d..a27626d6c7 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_arm.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 export HOST=arm-linux-gnueabihf
 # The host arch is unknown, so we run the tests through qemu.
 # If the host is arm and wants to run the tests natively, it can set QEMU_USER_CMD to the empty string.
-if [ -z ${QEMU_USER_CMD+x} ]; then export QEMU_USER_CMD="${QEMU_USER_CMD:-"qemu-arm -L /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/"}"; fi
+if [ -z ${QEMU_USER_CMD+x} ]; then export QEMU_USER_CMD="${QEMU_USER_CMD:-"qemu-arm -L /usr/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ -s 16777216"}"; fi
 export DPKG_ADD_ARCH="armhf"
 export PACKAGES="python3-zmq g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf busybox libc6:armhf libstdc++6:armhf libfontconfig1:armhf libxcb1:armhf"
 if [ -n "$QEMU_USER_CMD" ]; then
@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ if [ -n "$QEMU_USER_CMD" ]; then
 fi
 export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_arm_linux
 # Use debian to avoid 404 apt errors when cross compiling
-export DOCKER_NAME_TAG="debian:bullseye"
+export DOCKER_NAME_TAG="debian:bookworm"
 export USE_BUSY_BOX=true
-export RUN_UNIT_TESTS=true
+export RUN_UNIT_TESTS=false
 export RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS=false
 export GOAL="install"
+export DEP_OPTS="NO_QT=1"
+export BOOST_TEST_RANDOM=19708549
 # -Wno-psabi is to disable ABI warnings: "note: parameter passing for argument of type ... changed in GCC 7.1"
 # This could be removed once the ABI change warning does not show up by default
-export BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-reduce-exports CXXFLAGS=-Wno-psabi"
+export BITCOIN_CONFIG="--without-gui --enable-reduce-exports CXXFLAGS='-Wno-psabi -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized'"