As mentioned by others here, that you could have two adb's running ... And to add to these answers from a Linux box perspective ( for the next newbie who is working from Linux );
Uninstall your distro's android-tools ( use zypper or yum etc )
# zypper -v rm android-tools
Find where your other adb is
# find /home -iname "*adb"|grep -i android
Say it was at ;
/home/developer/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
Then Make a softlink to it in the /usr/bin folder
ln -s /home/developer/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb /usr/bin/adb
Then;
# adb start-server