Experienced a strange encounter where Steam is loaded twice. I have Steam locked to my Ubuntu launcher menu and I noticed that sometimes that there are two Steam clients running at the same time.

It causes undefined behaviour like randomly going offline. I simply kill -9 the processes and I start from the terminal.

Here's my debug information:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    CPU Family:  0x6
    CPU Model:  0x3a
    CPU Stepping:  0x9
   CPU Type:  0x0
   Speed:  3301 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
     Kernel Version:  3.13.0-49-generic
     X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11501000
    X Window Manager:  Compiz
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2015-01-06

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.113
OpenGL Version: 4.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x11c0
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 23.54" x 13.23"  (26.97" diag)
                                        59.8cm x 33.6cm  (68.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Intel CougarPoint HDMI

Memory:
    RAM:  7880 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_GB.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  287203 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  226889 Mb

Installed software:

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