diff --git a/ci/cmake-preloads/config-linux-alt-arch.txt b/ci/cmake-preloads/config-linux-alt-arch.txt
index 6b6915838..4e5c7a7e1 100644
--- a/ci/cmake-preloads/config-linux-alt-arch.txt
+++ b/ci/cmake-preloads/config-linux-alt-arch.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ set(WITH_DEBUG_XV OFF CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(WITH_SAMPLE ON CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(WITH_NO_UNDEFINED ON CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(WITH_SANITIZE_ADDRESS OFF CACHE BOOL "preload")
-set(USE_UNWIND OFF CACHE BOOL "preload")
+set(USE_UNWIND ON CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(USE_EXECINFO OFF CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(WITH_FFMPEG ON CACHE BOOL "preload")
 set(WITH_SWSCALE ON CACHE BOOL "preload")
diff --git a/winpr/libwinpr/utils/unwind/debug.c b/winpr/libwinpr/utils/unwind/debug.c
index 585f21d7c..d30b377ae 100644
--- a/winpr/libwinpr/utils/unwind/debug.c
+++ b/winpr/libwinpr/utils/unwind/debug.c
@@ -139,10 +139,14 @@ void* winpr_unwind_backtrace(DWORD size)
 	rc = _Unwind_Backtrace(unwind_backtrace_callback, ctx);
 	if (rc != _URC_END_OF_STACK)
 	{
+		/* https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/11490
+		 *
+		 * there seems to be no consensus on what to return from this function.
+		 * so we just warn about unexpected return codes and return the context regardless.
+		 */
 		char buffer[64] = { 0 };
-		WLog_ERR(TAG, "_Unwind_Backtrace failed with %s",
-		         unwind_reason_str_buffer(rc, buffer, sizeof(buffer)));
-		goto fail;
+		WLog_WARN(TAG, "_Unwind_Backtrace failed with %s",
+		          unwind_reason_str_buffer(rc, buffer, sizeof(buffer)));
 	}
 
 	return ctx;