unity lens doesnt show anything, and it seems that there is a .service config file missing from dbus-1 folder

[Nicolás José Diego Narváez Barría]

Ubuntu 13.10, completly updated

i´ve been like a week withouth being able to use the dash for open applications, yes, i´ve doing that fom the console all this time, learning the bin programs names from share/applications folder, and is pretty fancy get more in touch with that, but, i want to be able of use the dash some time (i didnt did anything until now because i believed it was going to be fixed with an update(aniway i dont remeber if an update caused this)) :

details:
when i open de unity dash, its completly empty, no lens, no files, nothing, just the message "nothing matches your search"

so:
i executed: unity --replace , to see console output when i open the dash

there is this error message:

WARN 2013-08-31 01:57:37 unity.libunity-protocol-private <unknown>:0 unity-scope-proxy-remote.vala:399: Unable to set_active (/com/canonical/unity/home): GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name com.canonical.Unity.Scope.Home was not provided by any .service files

then i tried to create my own .service file for the /usr/share/dbus-1/services folder, seeing how they wehere defined, and the structure of the /usr/share/unity/scopes too. I didnt found anything useful in the man doc for unity-scope-loader. And my pretty .service file was creating system errors.

so i end up clueles...
i logged out, and open a vitual console in f1
i purgen unity-services and other packages, and reinstalled them

everything is the same

i dont what to understand the complet way unity works internally, and i dont whant to purge all unity or ubuntu, so im asking here, and i hope my mecanically cold and desperate sorrows are heard :|

[Nicolás José Diego Narváez Barría (edge731)]

this is how it looks like

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The symptoms you are describing sound as if the package "unity-scope-home" has been not installed correctly for some unknown reason. Try reinstalling that package and test again.

If that does not solve the problem, we will need more information about your installation. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1219169

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Nicolás José Diego Narváez Barría (edge731)]

thanks!, amazingly it was unninstalled, maybe there is a dependency missed in a unity package description?

i maked a distro upgrade from 13.04 some months ago if it helps, maybe it is related to some bad update....

cheers!

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Thanks for letting us know the issue is resolved.

Packages being removed during an upgrade is unfortunately an occasional problem with pre-release versions of Ubuntu. It's better to report this as a bug just in case it's more sinister than a mid-transition update problem.