Unity

Dash not finding anything

Bug #761403 reported by Walter Garcia-Fontes on 2011-04-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #761225: unity places don't start up on login.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

After updating to unity 3.8.8 the Dash does not find applications or files. I enter the name and the icon starts moving but does not do anything.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,imgpng,vpswitch,annotate,grid,gnomecompat,snap,move,mousepoll,unitymtgrabhandles,regex,place,resize,session,wall,animation,expo,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.DP.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.DP.2:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.2:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.eDP.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1440x900 1440x900
edid-base64: AP///////wAGr0dBAAAAAAETAQSVHhN4AonllFdUkyciUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBlCWgPlGEDDBAIDMAL70QAAAaDRmgPlGEDDBAIDMAL70QAAAaAAAA/gBEVjVKMYBCMTQxUFc0AAAAAAAAQSEeAAAAAAkBCiAgANU=
Date: Fri Apr 15 07:19:56 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-04-01 08:14:12.970529
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:040a]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6410
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=fa99ae24-989c-400c-83e8-103ab0a28c85 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (13 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/28/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0667CC
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd05/28/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6410:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0667CC:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6410
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110411-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu12
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote on 2011-04-15:

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote on 2011-04-15:

Could you double-check that unity-applications-daemon and unity-files-daemon are running?

You can check that with this command:
ps aux | grep unity

It should return something like:
bilal 2354 0.0 0.8 34708 8608 ? Sl 07:30 0:02 /usr/bin/unity-window-decorator
bilal 2369 0.0 0.4 51696 4408 ? Sl 07:30 0:00 /usr/lib/unity-place-files/unity-files-daemon
bilal 2371 0.0 0.6 56740 6304 ? Sl 07:30 0:00 /usr/lib/unity-place-applications/unity-applications-daemon
bilal 4252 0.4 1.8 108780 18840 ? Sl 08:27 0:09 /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service
bilal 4813 0.0 0.0 4156 860 pts/1 S+ 09:03 0:00 grep --color=auto unity

In the above case on lines 2 and 3, both the daemon are running properly. Could you check whether this is the case with you? If not then a reboot would help. Thanks.