Steam for linux Beta issue AKA I screwed up my install lol

[Stealth Civet]

Sorry if this is the wrong place but there doesn't seem to be a steam linux forum. Any way I'm having a slight issue with steam on Ubuntu in big picture mode or rather not being in big picture mode. you see after setting up BPM on my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop I set steam to start at boot and start in BPM then when I reset my system to confirm it worked boom I have no Steam. I boot in to Ubuntu and steam does not start. I wait a few minutes... nothing. I click the steam icon and check my system monitor and see steam starts and closes with in about 5-10 seconds. Now I'm not expecting everything to work perfect I understand this is a BETA, but now I have no steam : ( If anyone has any ideas on how to revert my install of steam or at the very least how to uninstall so I can try reinstalling it would be greatly appreciated.

[awesomepossum]

try ps -ax | grep steam then kill -s 9 *pid* - do this for every thing with steam in it... im sure it dident self close all of its things... then start steam again.. might have just tried to start steam to early, if it works after this add steam later in boot, like in ur home directorys shell profile, best i can help u with though as i dont have ubunto on a box or in a vm :/

-edit oh u could also be running it as the wrong user maby? i dont know how steam installs itself on linux but has to have proper runing perms and start as the right account to access things and that account needs perms for display, and such things...

[Stealth Civet]

Thanks for the help man tried but to no avail. Still when i go to start steam again insta crash. Also yeah I only got the one account on that machine. I'm thinking It's just not likeing trying to start in BPM i'm using crap ati onboard gpu. If I could get to settings and change that I think id be ok.

[awesomepossum]

there are atleast like 12 accounts on any unix/linux machine by default, all required for different levels of the interworkings to, well. do things... there is groups also, there is a user account *these are not log-inable accounts btw* for sound, printer, display, etc... and allot of applications will install there own account and or group and need to be added to other accounts/groups by u before working correctly... less u are trying to run it as root and its not working, but not everything well run as root ether in some cases... there might be a uninstall script in its installed folder or a cmd to its installer app, but u should be able to just run the installer again for its default settings.