diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 0699fb70..1a8d8cf3 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ Thanks to Benjamin Cathelineau, see
 
 ** Fix codespell typos.
 
+** syslogd, talkd: Better compatibility with utmp-less GNU/Linux systems
+when configuring with --enable-systemd.
+Thanks to Valentin Haudiquet for reporting the issue and testing possible
+solutions.  For more info, see the thread starting at
+<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2025-11/msg00000.html>.
+
 # Noteworthy changes in release 2.6 (2025-02-21) [stable]
 
 ** The release tarball is now reproducible.
diff --git a/libinetutils/ttymsg.c b/libinetutils/ttymsg.c
index 74d73167..9d7db630 100644
--- a/libinetutils/ttymsg.c
+++ b/libinetutils/ttymsg.c
@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ inetutils_ttymsg (struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, char *line, int tmout)
     {
       if (errno == EBUSY || errno == EACCES)
 	return (NULL);
+#ifdef READUTMP_USE_SYSTEMD
+      /*
+       * GNU/Linux systems without utmp file but with utmp emulation
+       * provided via Gnulib's read_utmp() function regularly return
+       * non-existing TTYs for some active user sessions.  This is a
+       * limitation of the utmp emulation.  Thus ignore this error on
+       * such systems, but not others.
+       */
+      if (errno == ENOENT)
+	return (NULL);
+#endif
       snprintf (errbuf, sizeof (errbuf), "%s: %s", device, strerror (errno));
       free (device);
       return errbuf;