diff --git a/tests/functional/bad.tar.xz b/tests/functional/bad.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 250a5ad1a..000000000
Binary files a/tests/functional/bad.tar.xz and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/tests/functional/tarball.sh b/tests/functional/tarball.sh
index 391c21385..062f27ad6 100644
--- a/tests/functional/tarball.sh
+++ b/tests/functional/tarball.sh
@@ -57,8 +57,3 @@ test_tarball() {
 test_tarball '' cat
 test_tarball .xz xz
 test_tarball .gz gzip
-
-rm -rf $TEST_ROOT/tmp
-mkdir -p $TEST_ROOT/tmp
-(! TMPDIR=$TEST_ROOT/tmp XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$TEST_ROOT/tmp nix-env -f file://$(pwd)/bad.tar.xz -qa --out-path)
-(! [ -e $TEST_ROOT/tmp/bad ])