diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.76.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.76.1.bb
index 66b6a78a53..3687123141 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.76.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.76.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ DEPENDS = "glib-2.0-native glib-2.0"
 
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "5c698a9994dde51efdfb1026a56698a221d6250e89dc50ebcddda7b81480a42b"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "openssl environment ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'tests', '', d)}"
+# Upstream note that for the openssl backend, half the tests where this backend don't return
+# the expected error code or don't work as expected so default to gnutls
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gnutls environment ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'tests', '', d)}"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[gnutls] = "-Dgnutls=enabled,-Dgnutls=disabled,gnutls"
 PACKAGECONFIG[openssl] = "-Dopenssl=enabled,-Dopenssl=disabled,openssl"