As I mentioned earlier, there has been some change in karaf fluorine so that now the first time you connect to the console via SSH (ssh -p 8101 karaf@....0.1 <mailto:karaf@....0.1>) can take more than 10 secs. This produces the issue in the test. Now I am not sure this is critical enough to fix it.
This is probably related to BC 1.61, quoting 1.62 release notes:
A performance issue with RSA key pair generation that was introduced in 1.61 has been mostly eliminated.
I am not sure it's worth re-spinning the whole thing, though...
