Spotlight keyboard shortcut broken after installing 10.10.1

Command-Space is no longer bringing up Spotlight. I've tried restoring default keyboard settings, disabling/enabling Spotlight, rebooting my machine, no luck.
Anyone know a fix?

For the first time, I needed to do start in Safe Mode on this exact iMac and came across your unanswered question when trying to figure it out.
You cannot restart into Safe Mode, you need to shut down. Hold shift right after you hear the chime. There's also a command line option here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
It took an uncomfortably long time and I cursed myself for not running a current backup, but let's hope it solves my impossible to solve wake from sleep problem.

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