Mavericks Internet Sharing requiring restarts

BIG FAT THANKS, DUDE! i'd love to learn how u do that, would u please just tell me what should i do or go out there and read?
Regards 🙂

Thank you sooo much. This fixed it for me.

The script works like a champ.

I've just read through this thread and the initial fix was really helpful as is the command posted to kill the process too!

I've been trying to find a way of reliably enabling and disabling internet sharing via the command line or apple script and recently found this:

to start: sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist

and to stop: sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist

Seems to work for me really well 🙂 Just thought I'd share.

Oh and I'll just add that I followed the previous steps and had better responsde but it was still intermittant but much better.

bolste wrote:

To quickly resolve this issue if it occurs again, I wrote a script containing the following line which automates searching the process id of bootpd and killing it:

sudo lsof -i udp:67 | grep bootpd |awk '{ print $2 }'| while read pid; do echo killing $pid; sudo kill -9 $pid&&echo "successfull..."; done

This worked perfectly for me too! Thank you!

bolste wrote:

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sudo lsof -i udp:67 | grep bootpd |awk '{ print $2 }'| while read pid; do echo killing $pid; sudo kill -9 $pid&&echo "successfull..."; done

This worked like a charm! Thanks!!

sudo lsof -i udp:67 | grep bootpd |awk '{ print $2 }'| while read pid; do echo killing $pid; sudo kill -9 $pid&&echo "successfull..."; done

Should I type the script in Terminal?

Back story..

The wireless sharing from my imac has been used by a variety of apple devices and HP printers without any issues in the past.

After installing Mavericks it initially seemed to require being turned off and back on each time, but it would only share wifi with the macbook and no longer connect to the printer.

Today after a few weeks it seems to no longer turn on at all.

Upon turning "internet sharing" on, the wifi symbol in the menu bar begins to search for a connection and then after a few seconds it blinks for a split second with the grey cone arrow symbol before continuing its search...

I believe i've tried all other sugestions in this thread, but this one seems outside my range of aqcuaintance.

console output?

Yes. What I did was copied then pasted the code into Terminal, then enter.

Just tried that and this was the response:

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

Typing does not show anything... so I type Ctrl-C and this appeares:

sudo: 1 incorrect password attempt

wireless:~ miarka$ password

-bash: password: command not found

wireless:~ miarka$

BTW "password" represents where my password reappears.

That's perfectly normal. Your password won't be shown for security reasons. Type your password and hit enter and all will be fine 🙂

I've got it, thanks 🙂

So it was still not accepting my password telling me it's invalid and that it will be "reported"...

But I remembered that I have three user profiles on this computer.

(originally two but since photoshop stopped opening after mavericks install, I had to create a third)

So in the administrative profile, I opened Terminal and got this response (after copy pasting and pasword):

killing 38131

successfull...

Wifi sharing seems to be back on🙂.

But I have noticed that the username in Terminal does not match the current username of this profile. could this cause problems? I remember changing it about 2 years ago..

Thanks LBJ_UK! This solved the issue for me as well!

I found an "en1" - deleted it and I tried this time without password and it worked at once.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks so much for the script! Worked for me too.

I had been restarting the iMac for months now to fix the issue. It was driving me nuts.

You're a genius.

Hey all,

Same problem (sharing icon instead of regular wifi icon appears only for a split second, sharing starts only to stop immediately).

1) Re LBJ-UK : I did find an old keychain item about my 'en1' interface, got rid of that - no change.

2) Re bolste : indeed, there was someone else using UDP and stuff (whatever the heck that means) : no less than launchd/bootps, PID n°1 ! A hard kill with your well-written script did not do the trick though. But a regular, by-the-book launchctl unload with option w did the job. Now lsof -i udp:67 displays two UDP67 users : bootpd and InternetS (which I guess to be InternetSharing !), and it works.

To sum it up : do this !

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/bootps.plist

PS : maybe deleting the old keychain item helped, too.