Yosemite showing only Guest login

Hi
I installed Yosemite on a new SSD last week and it has been working well so far.
However, it hanged today (nothing moving, not even the spinning beach ball of death). So, I did a hard reboot. On restarting, it shows me a screen to unlock FileVault full disk encryption with my user. After entering my password, it goes to the login screen, but here it only shows me a Guest user.
The guest user is preselected and has a password field focussed underneath it.
How do I log into my user?
Thanks,
Arunjit

Thanks for the tip.
I was hoping to not have to reinstall the OS again, but that's the step that worked.
(I didn't try creating the new admin user.. I had already started the re-install; I'll try this the next time it happens)
Nothing different in safe mode.
There were some permissions that needed changing, but that didn't fix the issue.
I've also switched the login window to name and password, instead of a list of user names. If this happens again, at least I'd have a place to put in my username and password.
Thanks!

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