Tails 7.0 randomly freezing (hard reebot with unencrypted drives)

So im running Tails 7.0 on a dvd (see my other thread as to why I use dvd’s, some agreed) and what happens is, it appears it randomly freezes and I have to basically press the power button on my computer to reboot. Why is this happening? Perhaps my dvd-rw disk is busted? Or something else? I did check gpg verification of the .iso, and I assume when you burn an .iso, the verification after burning guarantees the integrity of the files.

Well the thing is, it became frozen when I had 2 encrypted drives opened. Could data become leaked from one drive to another because of this? geez. I assume it doesn’t since Tails works all on RAM, but still, it’s not cool to do a hard reset with unencrypted drives.

Could something become damaged because of that? I tried again and both disks unencrypted fine.

One disk is FDE with veracrypt and another with Debian 13, whatever it’s used (I think LUKS) on the install wizard. Btw, it sucks that the boot partition is not encrypted. Is it possible to lock it at least and not accidentally open it? Tails automatically opened it as if it was a folder when I clicked on it , I think it didn’t even ask for root password. O perhaps it did. The thing is, I want to lock it for the duration of the session at least so I don’t accidentally copy a keepass file in there or something. Veracrypt encrypts the whole thing but not Debian 13, which encrypts the 2 partitions (swap and the “main” one) but the boot one is not encrypted.

Im hoping Tails becoming frozen and hard rebooting wouldn’t mean some data could have jumped around drives somehow.

I also recommend asking this on a Linux focused forum, by the way. Likely a better place to ask topic specific question about Linux, especially Tails.

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not always, you may also want to try writing the disc at a slower speed.

It was written to the lowest speed possible I think.