This may explain it in some way: it turned out that ubuntu-desktop was uninstalled and uninstallable because several Ubuntu-specific packages required python << 2.7, and 2.7 was all I had. I'm in the process of resolving that; it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade just wasn't bold enough.
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