May not be a link, but: My chromebook a couple of days or so decided that I was putting my password to enter the machine in wrongly - this is the same as the google acccount gmail account/address pasword.
I very definitely was not putting it in wrong.
I had no choice but to go to the recovery process, tapping in a code sent to another email address.
For reasons best known to google this wipes the entire internal "drive" though it gives you everything back that was stored in your google drive. As a security measure that makes no sense to me.
I lost everything in the download drive - mostly material to read -lesson learned - I now pretty much immediately copy everything downloaded to google drive and there is clearly no reason at all to pay google for a chromebook with a bigger internal drive.
Cos they reserve the right to trash it.
I don't know if there is a link with your issue but I know that mine is not an isolated example.
