FATAL: $USER is not set, and unable to look up name of current user: (error: 0): Success

Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Angular. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

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What the log looks like

Deploy log
FATAL: $USER is not set, and unable to look up name of current user: (error: 0): Successnode:internal/errors:983const err = new Error(message);^Error: Command failed: pnpm --silent bazel query --output=label "filter(':npm_package$', attr('tags', '\[.*release-package.*\]', //src/...))"at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:916:11)at execSync (node:child_process:988:15)at exec (file:///app/scripts/build-packages-dist.mts:95:20)at buildReleasePackages (file:///app/scripts/build-packages-dist.mt…

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