Mint Menu loads as empty square

[RayWoods]

LMDE 201108RC - 64bit running on a Sony VAIO laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-SZ5MN/B). A number of times, after clicking upon the Mint Menu button, the outer box of the menu springs onto the screen but the content fails to load. It is as though there is a translucent box over the desktop. Unfortunately (or fortunately), this doesn't happen every time.

[RayWoods (raywoods-ntlworld)]

<<Update>>This fault appears to be occurring at the first use after powering on.

[Warlon (sampsa-p)]

Same problem here. HP Elitebook 6930p with Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller.

[rocuronium (rocuronium)]

I can confirm this bug.

It happens to me most of the time (but not always) right after booting when I click on the Mint Menu button for the first time. After closing the empty box menu, the second time clicking on the menu always brings it up appropriately.

System: Host calvin-desktop Kernel 3.0.0-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (-MCP-) cache 1024 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips 4017.84
           Clock Speeds: (1) 1000.00 MHz (2) 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card nVidia G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] X.Org 1.10.4 Res: 2048x1152@50.0hz
           GLX Renderer GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card nVidia MCP55 High Definition Audio driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:06.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.24
Network: Card nVidia MCP55 Ethernet driver forcedeth at port b000 BusID: 00:08.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (14.5% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1002FAEX 1000.2GB 31C
Partition: ID:/ size: 20G used: 6.4G (35%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 97G used: 41G (45%) fs: ext4
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: 43.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1896 psu: 900 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 0 sys-3: 0 sys-4: 492
Info: Processes 131 Uptime 40 min Memory 842.8/3965.9MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23

[rocuronium (rocuronium)]

I can reproduce this bug every time I restart my computer. The first click of the MintMenu always brings up this type of empty window.

One thing I noticed as I was taking this screenshot is that when I left my mouse on the empty window, the tooltip for 'Lock Screen' came up ("Requires password to unlock"). I tried to bring up other tooltips but was unsuccessful.