To follw up, I had to do a fresh install of 14.04 to clear out the multiple instances. I was having other wierd things going on anyway. What I can say is that the problem, at least in my case because I was running Nvidia 337.xx on 12.04 for crypto currency mining, may have stemmed from not properly removing the manually installed Nvidia driver prior to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04.
To follw up, I had to do a fresh install of 14.04 to clear out the multiple instances. I was having other wierd things going on anyway. What I can say is that the problem, at least in my case because I was running Nvidia 337.xx on 12.04 for crypto currency mining, may have stemmed from not properly removing the manually installed Nvidia driver prior to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04.