diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
index d1d6f4987def0c..1a8b2b7e8593f3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc/test_pydoc.py
@@ -1303,14 +1303,30 @@ def test_apropos_with_unreadable_dir(self):
     @os_helper.skip_unless_working_chmod
     def test_apropos_empty_doc(self):
         pkgdir = os.path.join(TESTFN, 'walkpkg')
+        import posix
+        posix._emscripten_debugger()
         os.mkdir(pkgdir)
+        posix._emscripten_debugger()
+        print()
+        print(f"{os.getcwd()=}")
+        print(f"{TESTFN=}")
+        print(f"{pkgdir=}")
+        print()
+        print(f"{os.getcwd().encode()=}")
+        print(f"{TESTFN.encode()=}")
+        print(f"{pkgdir.encode()=}")
         self.addCleanup(rmtree, pkgdir)
         init_path = os.path.join(pkgdir, '__init__.py')
         with open(init_path, 'w') as fobj:
             fobj.write("foo = 1")
         current_mode = stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(pkgdir).st_mode)
+        print()
+        print(f"{current_mode=:#o}")
         try:
+            posix._emscripten_debugger()
             os.chmod(pkgdir, current_mode & ~stat.S_IEXEC)
+            new_mode = stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(pkgdir).st_mode)
+            print(f"{new_mode=:#o}")
             with self.restrict_walk_packages(path=[TESTFN]), captured_stdout() as stdout:
                 pydoc.apropos('')
             self.assertIn('walkpkg', stdout.getvalue())
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/emscripten/__main__.py b/Tools/wasm/emscripten/__main__.py
index c0d58aeaadd2cf..91f577ad4e62fa 100644
--- a/Tools/wasm/emscripten/__main__.py
+++ b/Tools/wasm/emscripten/__main__.py
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ def configure_emscripten_python(context, working_dir):
                 }}
                 REALPATH=abs_path
             fi
+            NODEFLAGS=--inspect-brk
 
             # We compute our own path, not following symlinks and pass it in so that
             # node_entry.mjs can set sys.executable correctly.
@@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ def make_emscripten_python(context, working_dir):
     )
 
     exec_script = working_dir / "python.sh"
-    subprocess.check_call([exec_script, "--version"])
+    # subprocess.check_call([exec_script, "--version"])
 
 
 def build_all(context):