I also started to notice the same bug, but my disk is not external nor encrypted. It is a SSD system installed disk. I attached a pic of the nagging dialog I get each time I login after a bootup, asking me for my root password. See pic snap-01.png This never happen before, but showed up a few weeks backs and I was just ignoring it at first. I initially opened this as a KDE bug, but was told this is a openSUSE bug and was pointed to this one. My system info Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210120 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.10.7-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 16 ��� AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series