The attached patch works around the issue for sysvinit/elogind users. A proper solution however would auto-apply the appropriate version of the packages file (or supermin.d directory), depending on the state of the host system.
Cheers Daniel
--- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/packages.orig 2019-08-21 23:05:49.623663071 +0200 +++ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/packages 2019-08-21 23:05:56.343771343 +0200 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ libhivex0 libjansson4 libpcre3 -libsystemd0 +libelogind0 libxml2 libyara3 lsscsi
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