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[jts]

I'm having trouble installing Bonbo on Ubuntu server (Feisty 7.04).  Everything in the setup works, until it goes to generate osslpriv.pem key, using "Certtol".  Certtool seems to hang on the system and does not do anything.
I have tried "certtool --generate-privkey --bits 32 --outfile mekey.pem" outside of the setup to see if I can get that as well, however that also hangs.

I've read the GENTOO wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/Certificate_Authority) and it mentions that Certtool will hang with system without enough Entropy.  How exactly would I create that on a server environment?  I've tried logging in via another shell, but it does not seem to work like that.

[jts]

Success!  If you are using VMWARE, this is how I was able to get it to work. 

I was running the bongo-setup using a ssh command window.  When the install got up to the CERT creation part, I went into the VMWARE guest console and generated some traffic.  Traceroute to google, "cat /var/log/*.log > /dev/null", etc.

It seemed to generate enough entropy to create the certificates.   Hope this helps others.  This also applies to using the certtool on Ubuntu.

[forcev]

Thanks for the solution