I shutdown my computer with no problems last night. Today I decrypted my drive with the on-screen prompt and it followed into a solid-grey background; My 3 accounts were not displaying. Rebooting has done nothing regarding the problem. The only notable thing I've done is install drawio and thunderbird from the pop shop.
Despite this issue, I was able to press [Enter] and input my password successfully. Everything else seems to be running hunky-dory.
I read through my syslogs while scritching my chin, but I honestly have no idea what to look for this time. I scanned through my entire post-boot log entry to no avail, but I'm also a... linux noob.
I had the same issue last week after doing a kernel update. I thought it was a user error because I had been tinkering and trying out the new cosmic DE.
I didn’t try just pressing enter and typing my password, didn’t cross my mind. I ended up doing a fresh install and restoring my important files from a backup.