Difficulties enabling internet sharing

For months I've been having problems enabling internet sharing from my ethernet sharing over airport. Everything appears to be configured correctly, and when I check the "Internet Sharing" box in System Preferences > Sharing, the green dot is displayed next to Internet Sharing: On, but system.log shows:
Jul 2 09:41:42 Musa com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.InternetSharing[7708]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jul 2 09:41:42 Musa com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.InternetSharing): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
A workaround that worked in perhaps 50% of cases was to make sure that Airport was off, and then check Internet Sharing, enable Airport when asked to, and finally click "start" when asked "Are you sure you want to turn on internet sharing?"
But this works less and less frequently.
Any advice that could be offered would be appreciated.

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