diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.24.ebuild b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.24.ebuild
index 34016ece5b695..308c3ee5e4342 100644
--- a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.24.ebuild
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.24.ebuild
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.17-revert-s2idle.patch" # bug 939042
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.22-musl.patch" # bug 967191
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.22-musl-deux.patch" # bug 967711
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch" # bug 981933
 )
 
 python_check_deps() {
diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.25.ebuild b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.25.ebuild
index bff5d093f9c0f..39bc644334fc2 100644
--- a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.25.ebuild
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.25.ebuild
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.17-revert-s2idle.patch" # bug 939042
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.22-musl.patch" # bug 967191
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.22-musl-deux.patch" # bug 967711
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch" # bug 981933
 )
 
 python_check_deps() {
diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.27.ebuild b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.27.ebuild
index efec699ab1ed6..099710f957858 100644
--- a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.27.ebuild
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-255.27.ebuild
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ PATCHES=(
 	# https://github.com/elogind/elogind/issues/285
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.17-revert-s2idle.patch" # bug 939042
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.22-musl.patch" # bug 967191
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch" # bug 981933
 )
 
 python_check_deps() {
diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.14-r1.ebuild b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.14-r1.ebuild
index c05136625cfe1..43231c914184b 100644
--- a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.14-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.14-r1.ebuild
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ DOCS=( README.md )
 
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-257.14-dbus-service.patch" #975147
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch" #981933
 )
 
 python_check_deps() {
diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.16.ebuild b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.16.ebuild
index cd74dcbbdf71c..c149010f6ad70 100644
--- a/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.16.ebuild
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/elogind-257.16.ebuild
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ PDEPEND="
 
 DOCS=( README.md )
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch" # bug 981933
+)
+
 python_check_deps() {
 	python_has_version "dev-python/jinja2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" &&
 	python_has_version "dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/sys-auth/elogind/files/elogind-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch b/sys-auth/elogind/files/elogind-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dedff9406b721
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-auth/elogind/files/elogind-255.24-lxml-6.1.3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/43626
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/981933
+
+From 40d1acd6d9293915e0f1e69c5e5ecac086fdcb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:32:51 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] tools: fix building manpages with lxml 6.1.3
+
+manpages build fails on Arch with new lxml:
+
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 169, in make_page
+    _extract_directives(directive_groups, formatting, page)
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+  File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 18, in _extract_directives
+    t = xml_parse(page)
+  File "/work/src/tools/xml_helper.py", line 25, in xml_parse
+    doc = tree.parse(page, _parser)
+  File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3717, in lxml.etree.parse
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 2045, in lxml.etree._parseDocument
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 2071, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1962, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1231, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 647, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 765, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
+  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 689, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
+  File "../src/man/hostname.xml", line 5
+lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Entity 'entities' not defined, line 5, column 11
+
+The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
+
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 180, in <module>
+    _xml = make_page(_template_path, _xml_files)
+  File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 171, in make_page
+    raise ValueError('failed to process ' + page) from e
+ValueError: failed to process ../src/man/hostname.xml
+
+Relying on XMLParser() defaults leaves the external parameter entity
+used to load custom-entities.ent unresolved. Request entity resolution explicitly.
+
+Follow-up for 1a13e31d275430ffba713c8a68ee7f22093c29e0
+---
+ tools/xml_helper.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tools/xml_helper.py b/tools/xml_helper.py
+index 87c24ab02a0f..e26ca92d9454 100755
+--- a/tools/xml_helper.py
++++ b/tools/xml_helper.py
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def resolve(self, url, _id, context):
+         return None
+ 
+ 
+-_parser = tree.XMLParser()
++_parser = tree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=True)
+ # pylint: disable=no-member
+ _parser.resolvers.add(CustomResolver())
+