See if this helps at all: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7906178?start=0&tstart=0 <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7906178?start=0&tstart=0>
-Carl > On Jul 24, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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