On 10/18/2017 3:54 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > Accessing /home leads to a blocked process. The reason is that (for > numerous years, due to reasons I don't remember) I had > x-systemd.automount in my fstab for /home
That makes sense. Now I wonder why is fsck trying to open /home? You run it on the block device; it should not know or care that the filesystem is normally mounted in /home.