With some providers, Digital Ocean being one of them, the combination of Ubuntu Distro and virtualization causes Tomcat to error out the first time it starts, and take a few minutes to start tomcat/red5 on subsequent restarts.
You see it in the tomcat catalina logs the time to get randon number is often 300secounds.
The fix for this is:
vi /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/security/java.security
change
securerandom.source=file:/dev/urandom
to
securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom
Now run sudo bbb-conf --clean and you will see bigbluebutton connect in 3-4 .... instead of .......................................................................................................................
Your good to go after this.
Regards,
Stephen