Comment 35 for bug 104553

Actually I had this problem today with a fresh Gutsy installation on a PC. It is not my machine, so I can't get more information than I will give below. Note, that I installed Gutsy a few weeks ago, without problems, but with the Live CD.

1. Windows XP was already installed.
2. Used the alternate Gutsy Install CD.
3. There was already a Dapper installation on the partition used, but I manually rearranged the partitions. 1.5 GB Swap, 10 GB root and the 60 GB home. Windows NTFS partitions untouched. So overwriting the previous installation
4. Installation went fine.
5. Booting went fine.
6. Installing the upgrades (after doing an extra update) worked until the configuration of ttf-opensymbol. It gave exactly the same problem as the original poster. It also refused the upgrade the OOo packages, because of dependence of the most recent ttf-opensymbol.
7. After reading the forums and launchpad, I found out very quickly that I had do a "sudo touch" on all above directories that gave "failed to write cache".
8. Problem fixed.

I don't know if there is an other bug report I should give this information. Is so, please which one?

Cheers,

Jeroen