Unity dash empty on Edubuntu

[Jonathan Carter]

On Edubuntu amd64/i386, the Unity menus are empty. Clicking on any of the icons on the dash yields the results:

"Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search."

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1220572

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

Confirmed. Upgrading Ubuntu Raring AMD64 -> Saucy Beta 1, and Unity dashboard shows empty as reported in this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package edubuntu-live - 13.09.1

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edubuntu-live (13.09.1) saucy; urgency=low

  * Drop conflict against unity-lens-shopping as this was breaking the
    dash, instead replace this with a gsettings key in edubuntu-artwork
    (LP: #1220572).
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:39:20 -0400

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

i'm not using edubuntu, just ubuntu. i have 7 icons. if i click files&folders i see some files. if i click the 3rd icon i see recent, download, folders. if i click the 'search applications' icon i see just the message: "Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search"

[Giuseppe Pennisi (giupenni78)]

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 and problem persists.
I attached a screenshot
http://tinypic.com/r/250sfb6/5

[Giuseppe Pennisi (giupenni78)]

I solve installing nvidia restricted driver.

[Felix Dreissig (f30)]

This also broke my system after and update to the final 13.10 release, so it doesn't look fixed to me. Probably related to #1233029, as the solution for me was manually installing 'unity-scope-home'.

[Andrew Grabko (andrew-grabko)]

Why did they mark #1242377 bug as duplicate of this FIXED bug without reopening, if it appeared just after recent 13.10 update?

[Felix Dreissig (f30)]

I did that because it apparently covers the same problem.
I unfortunately couldn't reopen this one, presumably due to missing permissions. I'd like to encourage anyone who is able to do that.

[Andrew Grabko (andrew-grabko)]

Installing 'unity-scope-home' helped indeed, but now there are no lens icons in the bottom of the dash menu.

[vasilisc (vasilisc)]

sudo apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install unity-scopes-master-default
sudo apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install unity-scopes-runner
sudo apt-get -o DPkg::options::=--force-confmiss --reinstall install unity-scope-home