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.
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