What would cause sudo to go deaf and dumb?

I updated to Sierra three days ago.  

I tried running a sudo command today and it just sits there like an idiot.  
Never even asks for a password.

The day I updated to Sierra, I got notified that MailTags and GPG were 
incompatible, so I updated both of them.  GPG still has only beta releases if 
you need to run on Sierra (if they don't hurry, they're going to miss Sierra 
entirely), so I installed that.  The installation hung when "one minute to go" 
turned into 15+ minutes with still nothing happening.  Activity Monitor showed 
it hung in sudo, nothing apparent under sudo (but for all I know, stuff under 
sudo forks its own hierarchy).  I quit and retried it, with the same result; 
then tried uninstalling the whole thing in case the old version was hosing 
something up; every installation or deinstallation hung.  Several HOURS later, 
after I thought I had terminated everything involved, a message popped up 
saying that either some installation or deinstallation had actually finished, 
and enjoy the results.  So I performed one final installation and let it run 
overnight; it ultimately finished, or timed out and assumed it succeeded, wh
 atever.  The point is, I don't know whether sudo was broken when GPG got 
there, or GPG (or something I caused by aborting it) broke sudo, or what.

Anyway, is there some sort of stupid-lock that needs to be cleared to make sudo 
proceed again?

I even went to console looking for sudo invocation entries.  Console and its 
navigation is all changed in Sierra, and if it's still recording sudo 
invocations I couldn't find them.
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