After upgrading to 13.10, no applications are visible in the application lens

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Published on 2013-10-28T09:51:01Z Indexed on 2013/10/28 10:01 UTC
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I upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 and now all icons in the application lens are gone.

Screenshot of missing applications in Unity 13.10 application lens

This is what I tried so far:

apt-get install --reinstall unity-lens-applications
unity --replace and unity --reset-icons
moving ~/.config to ~/.config2
deleting ~/.cache/software-center and ~/.cache/unity

Most of these things have been suggested in this question: Unity Applications lens is empty - but all to no avail.

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