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.
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dp-unity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219169 Title: unity lens doesnt show anything, and it seems that there is a .service config file missing from dbus-1 folder Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: 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 :| To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1219169/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp