Internet Sharing keeps turning itself off

"I have two new I5 mac,s "

Then you are in the wrong forum-Tiger. "New" Macs have Snow Leopard pre-installed. Therefore, I will request a HOST to transfer your post to the proper forum(s) so that you will not need to repost in the SL and/or Intel iMac forums.


In the meantime, it will helpful to the users here in trying to help you if you +click on+ & completely fill out *"My Settings"* with the proper info.--->





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I have exactly the same problem, very annoying!!!

I am having a similar issue with a wifi network set up in my home. We use a Verizon Wireless USB760 card to connect to the Internet. I have Internet Sharing set up to share the Verizon connection from my wife's iMac with Snow Leopard (10.6.5) to its Ethernet card. An ethernet cable is plugged into the card going to a router, which then shares the connection wirelessly to other devices in the home. This set up was working just fine up until yesterday. Seemingly randomly, every few hours, Internet Sharing would just turn off for no apparent reason. Then today it got worse, it literally does this about every 2-4 minutes now.

After a little digging, I found that the Console reports (on the apparent crash):

"11/28/10 6:32:41 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.InternetSharing[838] Exit timeout elapsed (20 seconds). Killing"

Any ideas on how I could fix this? Any help would be much appreciated.

This happens overnight, and I have to start it again in the am. The iMac is sleeping overnight, but does not share internet when it wakes up. Sometimes the lock unlocks itself, though I have a password.

Anyone solve this?