diff --git a/src/main/index.ts b/src/main/index.ts
index f608490ed1..478992201d 100644
--- a/src/main/index.ts
+++ b/src/main/index.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ if (app.commandLine.getSwitchValue("proxy-server") !== "") {
 }
 
 async function main() {
-  shellSync(app.getLocale());
+  try {
+    await shellSync(app.getLocale());
+  } catch (err) {
+    logger.warn("shellSync: ", err);
+  }
 
   const workingDir = path.join(app.getPath("appData"), appName);
   app.setName(appName);
diff --git a/src/main/shell-sync.ts b/src/main/shell-sync.ts
index 101fd46bc9..c7cf753e16 100644
--- a/src/main/shell-sync.ts
+++ b/src/main/shell-sync.ts
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ interface Env {
  * useful on macos where this always needs to be done.
  * @param locale Should be electron's `app.getLocale()`
  */
-export function shellSync(locale: string) {
+export async function shellSync(locale: string) {
   const { shell } = os.userInfo();
-  const env: Env = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(shellEnv.sync(shell)))
+  
+  const env: Env = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(await shellEnv(shell)))
   if (!env.LANG) {
     // the LANG env var expects an underscore instead of electron's dash
     env.LANG = `${locale.replace('-', '_')}.UTF-8`;