Comment 4 for bug 517454

This confusion comes from the fact that initially landscape-sysinfo had two running modes: at every login, and via cron.

When run via cron, there is no user logging in, so any backtraces would be stored in /var/log. But when run at login time, we are executing as an user, so we had to write somewhere else. That's where the ~/.landscape comes from.

Are the backtraces in your /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log file old by any change? Perhaps this machine was upgraded from an older distro instead of being a new installation?