Comment 2 for bug 215305

Danny Masri wrote:
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0214' near line 1:
> newline in field name `#padding'
> How do i solve this error?

Such dpkg bug can be easy solved - open the file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0214 and remove all lines with contents '#padding' (or simply remove file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0214 )

This bug appears because you don't have enough free disk space in / or /var partition, AFAIK you should have at least 100 MB free disk space in / (and in /var, if you have separate /var) partition before runing 'dpkg --configure -a' . Simply run command 'df -h' in terminal and you will see how much free space you have in each partition :)

If you have not enough free space you can remove old .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives/ folder