Login twice upon startup?

Hello All,
I recently upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks. I have a login screen where I enter my password. This is normal. But, now after the first login, the progress bar loads and then I'm presented with a second login screen. It looks exactly the same as the first, but now I can see my desktop picture in the faded background instead of the light gray of the first login screen. I repeat the same click on my user icon and enter my password and then I'm in. Finally.
When I noticed this change:
When I upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks, all was well and good except that my social widgets on the right sidebar were not showing up. I read a forum that suggested to refresh the UUID under "Users & Groups" System Preferences. After I refreshed and restarted, I noticed that this double login screen issue showed up. Has this happened to anyone else and do you have a solution? Thanks!!

I have filewault turned on, but everytime I have to login, typical from standby, there's a black screen with an apple logo (no progression bar) for a few seconds. Then i come to my login screen. Here i type my password, and the login screen pops up again, like the first login screen sits on top like another layer. That led me to wondering if i could have somekind of malware on my mac.
Does anyone have the same issue, and most importantly, what caused it? Because there should only be a single login screen, right?

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