Comment 2 for bug 521672

If I drop to the shell I can let the fsck finish and start the X environment manually (just as a work around).

If I don't do anything I can login via the GUI, but since my home directory is "not ready" by then I just get an empty desktop and a warning dialog like "cannot access home directory, taking / as default". After which the session is pretty unusable of course, default installation is that most of the desktop is in the home directory.
I also do not get an indication on the login screen that something is not ok (that something is still running in the background)