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In guest session, dash is completely empty and returns no results

Bug #973521 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
14
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2, Ubuntu Pangolin

1. Switch to a guest session, and open the dash.
2. Search for "terminal", or "firefox", or "solitaire", or anything you have installed.
3. Switch to the Applications lens.
4. Try the same search again.

What you see:
1. An empty purple box.
2. "Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search."
3. An empty purple box.
4. An empty purple box.

What you should see:
1. Something useful.
2. The application matching your search.
3. A list of applications installed.
4. The application matching your search.

(1) is reported as bug 962265. This report is about (2), (3), and (4).

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks Matthew, do you still have the issue? Since you reported the bug the dash got improved to have some applications prefiled and some bugs got fixed as well

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → New
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Verified fixed in 14.04.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Expired → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Expired → Fix Released
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