diff --git a/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch b/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..82df70fa4f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xinit/patches/dont-use-active-vt.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Revert this change that was committed to fix an issue with systemd.
+
+We want to keep the original behaviour, i.e use the first unused vt.
+
+--- startx.cpp.orig	2014-09-26 14:22:23.954772539 +0200
++++ startx.cpp	2014-09-26 14:22:32.993723320 +0200
+@@ -188,17 +188,6 @@ XCOMM process server arguments
+ if [ x"$server" = x ]; then
+     server=$defaultserver
+ 
+-#ifdef __linux__
+-    XCOMM When starting the defaultserver start X on the current tty to avoid
+-    XCOMM the startx session being seen as inactive:
+-    XCOMM "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806491"
+-    tty=$(tty)
+-    if expr match "$tty" '^/dev/tty[0-9]\+$' > /dev/null; then
+-        tty_num=$(echo "$tty" | grep -oE '[0-9]+$')
+-        vtarg="vt$tty_num"
+-    fi
+-#endif
+-
+     XCOMM For compatibility reasons, only use xserverrc if there were no server command line arguments
+     if [ x"$serverargs" = x -a x"$display" = x ]; then
+ 	if [ -f "$userserverrc" ]; then
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xinit/template b/srcpkgs/xinit/template
index ed918173346..d8f5573387d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xinit/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xinit/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'xinit'.
 pkgname=xinit
 version=1.3.4
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/xinit"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"