Excellent hint. Thank you, @Timo. As your command installs all available lenses --ther're a ton of them--, I opened Synaptic and tried with reinstalling only the already installed ones.
- Reinstalling the existing unity-lens-* changed nothing. - Looking at unity-scope-home showed this wasn't installed at all. Installing it also newly installed unity-scopes-master-default and after that, searching in the dash worked fine again. Accordingly, the following command should be sufficient: sudo apt-get install unity-scope-home This makes me wonder wether it's perhaps just a missing dependency. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238929 Title: Unity dash searches forever, no search results Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Since upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 (beta) I can no longer launch applications by searching them in the dash (topmost entry in the launcher bar). Whatever I enter as a search term, the spinning circle rotates, rotates, without ever showing any results. No message about "nothing found", either. Launching applications from the command line or from the launcher bar works just fine. To make sure we talk about the same I made a screenshot, please find it attached. I tried to remove everything in $HOME/.cache, no change. Then I ran unity in a terminal: $ unity compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: core compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: core [same for ccp] compizconfig - Info: Backend : gsettings compizconfig - Info: Integration : true compizconfig - Info: Profile : unity compiz (core) - Info: Loading plugin: opengl compiz (core) - Info: Starting plugin: opengl [same for composite, compiztoolbox, decor, imgpng, unitymtgrabhandles, vpswitch, move, copytex, mousepoll, place, gnomecompat, grid, snap, resize, regex, session, wall, animation, fade, expo, scale, workarounds, ezoom, unityshell] compizconfig - Info: Backend : gsettings compizconfig - Info: Integration : true compizconfig - Info: Profile : unity WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:586 Can't register object 'com.canonical.Autopilot.Introspection' yet as we don't have a connection, waiting for it... WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:586 Can't register object 'com.canonical.Unity.Debug.Logging' yet as we don't have a connection, waiting for it... ERROR 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib-gio <unknown>:0 g_file_monitor_set_rate_limit: assertion 'G_IS_FILE_MONITOR (monitor)' failed ERROR 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.launcher.icon.trash TrashLauncherIcon.cpp:64 Could not create file monitor for trash uri: Vorgang wird nicht unterstützt WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:586 Can't register object 'com.canonical.Unity.Launcher' yet as we don't have a connection, waiting for it... WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:586 Can't register object 'com.canonical.Unity.Dash' yet as we don't have a connection, waiting for it... WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 nux.inputmethod.ibus InputMethodIBus.cpp:63 Impossible to connect to connect to ibus WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:03 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:586 Can't register object 'org.gnome.SessionManager.EndSessionDialog' yet as we don't have a connection, waiting for it... compiz (decor) - Warn: No default decoration found, placement will not be correct [repeated 10 times] WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:04 unity.glib.dbus.proxy GLibDBusProxy.cpp:418 Calling method "CanShutdown" on object path: "/org/gnome/SessionManager" failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files ERROR 2013-10-11 20:45:04 unity.session.gnome GnomeSessionManager.cpp:297 Gnome Session call failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 nux.inputmethod.ibus InputMethodIBus.cpp:63 Impossible to connect to connect to ibus WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: home.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: applications.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: files.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: video.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: music.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: photos.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden WARN 2013-10-11 20:45:05 unity.dash.gsettingsscopereader GSettingsScopes.cpp:108 Error fetching protocol metadata for scope: social.scope : Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden ^C Note: "Es wurde keine gültige Schlüsselwertedatei in den Suchordnern gefunden" means about "no valid key file found in the search folders" That's it, so far, I'll happily run other debug attempts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: unity 7.1.1+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,imgpng,move,mousepoll,place,ezoom,gnomecompat,resize,regex,session,resizeinfo,wall,animation,fade,scale,workarounds,unityshell] Date: Fri Oct 11 20:17:41 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-07-28 (806 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-29 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1238929/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp