This failure was spotted in an Aurora adhoc job:

sun/security/pkcs11/rsa/TestKeyPairGenerator.java

    This test failed due to 'java.security.ProviderException: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception:
    CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED"


Here is a snippet of the .jtr file:

----------System.err:(23/1495)----------
java.security.ProviderException: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception: CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED
at sun.security.pkcs11.P11KeyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair(P11KeyPairGenerator.java:386)
at java.security.KeyPairGenerator$Delegate.generateKeyPair(KeyPairGenerator.java:697)
at TestKeyPairGenerator.main(TestKeyPairGenerator.java:119)
at PKCS11Test.premain(PKCS11Test.java:86)
at PKCS11Test.testNSS(PKCS11Test.java:403)
at PKCS11Test.main(PKCS11Test.java:96)
at TestKeyPairGenerator.main(TestKeyPairGenerator.java:97)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:502)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:94)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception: CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED
at sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11.C_GenerateKeyPair(Native Method)
at sun.security.pkcs11.P11KeyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair(P11KeyPairGenerator.java:378)
... 12 more

JavaTest Message: Test threw exception: java.security.ProviderException: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception: CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED
JavaTest Message: shutting down test

STATUS:Failed.`main' threw exception: java.security.ProviderException: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception: CKR_FUNCTION_FAILED