During pamac update of AUR packages: "parallel: Warning: $HOME not set. Using /tmp"

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Hello,

at the end of the update of my AUR packages in pamac, I had the following message that I can now read in the /var/log/pacman.log:
[ALPM-SCRIPTLET] parallel: Warning: $HOME not set. Using /tmp.

In this forum post, @GaVenga wrote :

Reason:
ZDOTDIR=$HOME
missing in .zshrc

Since my shell used is bash and not zsh, I have found no ~/.zshrc on my computer. I have looked quickly on the parallel file for bash, namely ~/.bashrc and have not found a line with ZDOTDIR= in it.

Should I change my shell from bash to zsh?

Or what should I do? And what exactly this following line mean?
[ALPM-SCRIPTLET] parallel: Warning: $HOME not set. Using /tmp.

Thank you for your attention!

Best,

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I’m on cinnamon running bash and always get the same error about parallel and home not set using tmp. It doesn’t seem to have affected anything so I just ignored it. Be nice to know what it actually is though

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Hello,
in the mean time I fixed this with ((!) additional entry (!)):

# due to parallel error:
# ZDOTDIR=$HOME
export HOME="/home/[username]"

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That makes many things easier - as I am on Gnome, zsh is the default anyway.
“How to” is described in the forum.
A working .zshrc can be obtained by copying this file from an actual Live-USB (Gnome)
(start the Live-medium and copy file to another USB-flash-drive).

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Doctor WHO? - Should be valid for cinnamon too.

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Thanks @GaVenga and @sawdoctor for your answers!

In which file, have you written this lines? In ~/.zshrc ?

As I am on Xfce, bash seems to be still the default shell, don’t it?
@philm wrote here this summer:

Gnome edition uses ZSH and Plasma and XFCE still bash.

At least bash is the default shell on my Xfce machine.
In the same thread, @cscs wrote:

Considering zsh still isnt a perfect drop-in replacement for bash …

So I don’t know if it is worth to change from bash to zsh…

Thanks anyway!

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Yes. (not testet: .bashrc) … And philm is right. always. :innocent:

Simply test it with a live-Gnome-medium?

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