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I had this issue and I also managed to solve it with (I think) pure luck.
I had an old LTS installed, and wanted to upgrade to 18.04. I decided to do a clean install with a live-USB. I got this error but tried anyway. The installation never finished and my system was broken. I recently tried again, but this time I chose to NOT format / and I also didn't specify to use my old /home as /home. The installation then went flawlessly and I had a working 18.04.3 installation.
However, I managed to install with a new username, not the one I had been using. This meant I had no access to my old user files. I then reinstalled again with the correct username, and again the install went flawlessly. But I could not log in, I just got sent back to the login prompt. I then installed ecryptfs-utils via tty, and log in now works and my system is fine.
I'm not sure if this is helpful or related to this bug, but hopefully it is.