from Hacker News

Caution on macOS 10.12.4: sudo is broken

by dr_pardee on 4/5/17, 10:42 PM with 3 comments

• by niteshade on 4/9/17, 10:34 AM

  > The ONLY fix that works is an erase/reinstall and manual reinstall of apps and data and reconfigure. This can take many hours for advanced users like me, with a detailed working environment.

  This line bugged me a bit, surely if you're a "pro" user, you would have a set of dotfiles and a script to install things from Homebrew.

• by mikestew on 4/6/17, 12:24 AM

  As pointed out in the article, there's probably a state problem here. I don't repro on the one 10.12.4 machine I have. What's really mystifying is that it eventually works (five minutes later), and the author states that nothing networky is involved (the example uses date command). My first guess was that sudo foobar was trying to access $FLAKEY_NETWORK_RESOURCE, but apparently not.