problem with nessus on knoppix 3.8.2

i start the nessus daemon and get


loading the plugins ... 1938 (out of 2386)bus error


and when i run the nessus client on the same machine i get


could not open connection to local host.


i am using an ibm t42 with 512MB of mem.


any suggestions would be great. thanks.

also,

this is running from the cd, not installed on the pc.