Yup, I just got done applying this fix and the "hang" (actually an incredibly long delay) went away. Thanks.
> On Jul 24, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > 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 <macs...@macsrwe.com >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> 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 >> MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com <mailto:MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com> >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >
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