prelude-admin add command hangs indefinitely

I'm setting up Prelude-IDS with Auditd on SuSE 10.2 s390x (linux guest 
under z/VM) following the steps on the prelude site at 
http://www.prelude-ids.com

During the step where I am Registering Auditd profile (per 
instructions: 
https://trac.prelude-ids.org/wiki/InstallingAgentThirdpartyAuditd ) the 
system is hanging indefinitely.

I realize there's a warning stating "Generating 1024 bits RSA private 
key... This might take a very long time." but this is taking a 
gawd-awful long time. I left it for several hours and the progress bar 
of "X"s didnt move at ALL.  Is that long enough, or am I being too 
impatient?


/root/audit> #prelude-admin add prelude-manager --uid 0 -
-gid 0
Generating 1024 bits RSA private key... This might take a very long 
time.
[Increasing system activity will speed-up the process].
Generation in progress... X



thats all I get.



After several (4+) hours, I stopped it and ran an strace to see where 
it was hanging:

chown("/usr/local/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-manager", 0, 0) = 0
access("/usr/local/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-manager/key", F_OK) = -1 
ENOENT (
No such file or directory)
write(2, "Generating 1024 bits RSA private"..., 74Generating 1024 bits 
RSA priva
te key... This might take a very long time.
) = 74
write(2, "[Increasing system activity will"..., 56[Increasing system 
activity wi
ll speed-up the process].
) = 56
write(2, "Generation in progress... ", 26Generation in progress... ) = 
26
access("/dev/random", R_OK)             = 0
access("/dev/urandom", R_OK)            = 0
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY)           = 3
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0}
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
write(2, "X", 1X)                        = 1
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 1 (in [3], left {2, 750000})
read(3, "T\242o\372\7\336\'\301", 300)  = 8
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0})      = 0 (Timeout)
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {3, 0}



last line repeats indefinitely.



In an attempt to find some way around the key generation step, I ran:

ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa -f 
/usr/local/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-manager/key

to mimic what prelude-admin seemed to be trying to do. That command 
generated a key in less than a second:

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in 
/usr/local/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-man
ager/key.
Your public key has been saved in 
/usr/local/etc/prelude/profile/prelude-manager
/key.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
e7:ea:02:88:fd:40:29:6b:d1:e9:4e:89:b2:af:7f:b1 root@a70zfaiflg1
[TFAIFLG1-a70zfaiflg1]:/root/audit> #prelude-admin add prelude-manager 
--uid 0 -
-gid 0
Created profile 'prelude-manager' with analyzerID '5242616976203226851'.



Is this adequate? or am I headed for trouble trying to get ssh-keygen 
keys to work?
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