Photoshop CC not opening - asking for license or to start trial

All the sudden, PS is not opening. Bridge opens, but not PS. Wants me to start trial, or enter serial # ... which I don't know.  What's the problem?

Welcome to the club. The whole CC licensing subsystem is crawling with bugs, and this is one of the most annoying. Which is too bad, because it's a brilliant and very user-friendly system when it works as advertised.
The CC forum is full of this. The latest official fix seems to be this one. This particular fix is Windows only (didn't help me on Win 7 though). But Macs are affected equally:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unable-login-creative-cloud-248.html
But the diagnosis given there seems to be correct. I'm signed out whenever I connect a certain external USB drive. So I don't do that, and since I stopped doing it I have remained signed in. Others have been signed out changing network connection. The common element seems to be a slight change in hardware status.
I'm sitting it out, waiting for an update or a more conclusive fix.

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