"Update needed" on OSX boot. How to remove it?

Hello guys!
First off, thanks for the opportunity.
Recently I've erased my iMac hard drive and chosen, in Disk Utility, to encrypt my data.
Everything went okay, except for one little problem.
When I boot OSX, it shows me up an misterious user named "Update needed". What is this?
I've searched the web for a quick solution, but unfortunately, the most suggested option I've found is:
Turn off FileVault, wait many hours to decrypt data and, turn it on again (and of course, wait some hours to encrypt).
Did anyone got this problem and solved it in a much easier way?
Thanks for the help!

I had this too and I turned off FireVault and the computer did its decrypt/encrypt in about 30 minutes. This corrected my initial login showing mystery man with ? and update needed wording. I now go straight to my login window with the proper login window.

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