# Summary:

As of this writing, Tumbleweed release 20240418, mounting an encrypted external drive which had worked without issue for years has stopped working from the Plasma desktop environment.

# Steps to reproduce:

1. Find the icon to mount external drives in panel.
2. Locate the encrypted drive and attempt to mount it.
3. Mount fails with the message:

```
You are not authorized to mount this device". 
```

Subsequent attempts to mount via the interface fails to produce any additional output. Error message also does not reappear.

When attempting to mount the drive via Dolphin, the following error message emerges:

```
An error occurred while accessing '3.6 TiB Encrypted Drive', thes system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Object does not exist at path "/"
```

# Additional information:

This is a newly reinstalled system on a new SSD shortly after the release of Plasma 6. I am able to remedy this issue at present by manually mounting the disks I need to mount via the terminal with cryptsetup with:

`sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/<location> <name>`, clicking on the drive in Dolphin, and typing in the root password.

The latter part itself, seems unnecessary, as it precludes non-root users in the system from being able to mount their own encrypted drives, and may be a separate issue. But I am noting it here because it seems relevant.