Recent Documents menu unnecessarily states "No items found"

Here is a screen shot showing my Recent Documents menu...

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Did you clean the list? it get updated again? The recent document is for now broken because of this bug 131266

This happens for me with Gutsy Tribe 5, it shows two items and then a grayed out "No items found". After clearing it out, the actual "Recent Documents" entry is grayed out so it can't even be expanded. What is the point then of the "No items found" entry then if it can't ever be logically seen?

This should be fixed now, may you check?

I don't think it is fixed, since today I have it!
which version of gnome-panel is supposed to fix it? I now have 1:2.20.0.1-0ubuntu2

that should be fixed by the new GTK, is your menu updated correctly?

no, it is not. I still see No items found, but not always.
I've done some tries without understanding when this happens...

could you run "ldd $(which gnome-panel)" and copy that to a comment?

I attached it since it was too long

Looks like your are using the ubuntu libgtk, what version of libgtk2.0-0 is installed?

Sorry, but I can only check directly this on monday, Anyway today I
upgraded from the main archive. So, the latest version of today!

Not confirmed, the current version work fine on my gutsy installation

This appears to be fixed for me now...
Can anyone else confirm?

well I'm sure it works in the beginning, but maybe after some reboots
the no item found appears again, in my installation. might this be a
misconfiguration?

So only for me it is not fixed!

It's not likely due to a configuration issue, anyway closing this bug since that's fixed for the submitter, Nicolo you should open a new bug with a screenshot of the bug, steps to trigger it and a clear description of what you do and what happens exactly since your issue seems to be a different one

I am sorry, this is actually still happening.

That message is visible when I first start up. However, after opening some documents (I'll try to get an exact number shortly) so that they appear on that list, "No items found" disappears"

I'm sure that Dylan is right. I see that after a reboot the "no items
found" appears. and after opening another document (and closing it so
it goes to the recents) the bug disappears

Confirming. This is not fixed in 7.10 with all update installed.

I probably am not meant to change my own bug to Confirmed, but there are two written confirmations here...

Confirmed. I'm using 7.10 with all updates installed, and I see this bug sometimes. When I hold my pointer over Recent Documents in the Places menu, I sometimes get a "No Items Found" below all the items in the list. It doesn't happen all the time; just sometimes. I would estimate that it happens about 25-30% of the time. (Probably, whether or not it happens has to do with whether I've opened any documents since I started the computer, as Dylan McCall states in his comment posted 2007-10-03.)

I've attached a screenshot of the problem.

That's known upstream and it's a gtk+ bug you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451341

Turns out this does *not* only happen when you've first started the computer. It just happened to me again, and I my computer's been on all day. (The problem always happens when the computer is first turned on, as described by other comments--but apparently it will happen at other times, too.)

Screenshot is attached.

I guess this is superfluous at this point, but here is another screenshot. My computer has been for quite a while.

Note that both files (torrc and log) are not editable by the logged in user, and were opened (as root via sudo) in the terminal.

the bug has been fixed upstream now

the new version is in hardy

Confirmed over here. Thanks, everybody :)