Cannot type in dash home in Ubuntu 13.10

[John Wayne]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 and am regularly uploading software updates.

My recent problem is:
I can not type in dash home. The text area is blank and is not editable.
However, i can still choose symbols with the mouse in dash home and run listed applications.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Did the inability to type in dash correspond directly with the update? Or did it happen after a software update.

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

If the issue corresponded with the update, release-upgrader will be the most likely culprit.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Travis Randall (xenodelphia)]

I find myself affected by this bug as well.

New installation of 13.10. However I have some old theme files from a different distro where I ran Gnome 3.8.

[Travis Randall (xenodelphia)]

To add further, I can paste into the dash search box, but I cannot type into it.

[John Wayne (wayne-s)]

@Travis: i tried to paste into the dash search box, and it worked for me as well. needless to say, i still can not type into the box.
@Quinn: i am not sure about when/how it happened. i realized it by coincidence.

[ZT (friendbing)]

Same here too.
But there's no problem in Guest Session.

[gexplorer (gexplorer8)]

I had the same problem. I also noticed that I couldn't write accents, so I checked:

System settings/Text entry

And the "Input sources to use" list was empty. I added "Spanish" and I was able to type in the dash again.