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I am using latest stable Debian build and trying to follow this tutorial.

Whenever my /etc/network/interfaces has anything wifi related, currently:

auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid myrealssid
    wpa-psk sonelongpassphrasereturnedbywpa_passphrase

, service networking restart quietly takes more than few minutes to complete, without output or success.

iwlist scan shows real wifi access points so the device seems to be working.

How do I go about troubleshooting?

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  • What does service networking status say?
    – Centimane
    Dec 12, 2016 at 17:37
  • Sorry - already fixed the issue. I think the service was not running after few minutes of idling. Whenever I commented out wireless part of interfaces, and used ethernet instead, networking restart behaved as expected. Installing/uninstalling wicd resolved the problem for me; not sure what the root cause was.
    – alm
    Dec 12, 2016 at 17:45

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In case someone finds this useful.

ifup wlan0 was more informative and resulted in No DHCPOFFERS recieved.

Some people reported that installing network-manager or wicd once helps,

This resolved the issue for me:

  • Installed wicd and dependencies,
  • Connected to the wireless network via wicd (not sure if this was required)
  • Uninstalled all packages installed in the step 1
  • Now the tutorial in op post works

Obviously this is a bit "dirty" solution.

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Usually when I see this issue (usually on servers not on wifi) I just do a quick reboot which yields better results.

You'll also see it fail or [OK] upon boot

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