Cannot generate ssh key

[baggins]

Try changing the key file name to something else and check if the key generation fails or not. This indicates a possible hardware (CPU or RAM) fault. It can cause various issues like scripts failing randomly or services not working correctly.

Same result with another file name.
Rebooted the machine and repeated: same result.

Shutdown the machine and powered down. Restarted: same result.
Tried with a dss key instead of rsa: same result.

Is there some logfile similar to the normal /var/log/messages that I could look at?
Some other process that I could run to see if there are also problems with that?

Thanks.