upgrade from 1.2.21 to 1.3.3

[Philippe Scheltà <..hidden..>]

Hello,

After having upgraded my server to Ubuntu oneiric, my LedgerSMB 1.2.21 
stopped working with perl errors in the apache2 error.log.
So I decided to move to the 1.3.3 version. In the meantime, the oneiric 
upgrades also postgresql from 8.4 to 9.1 things look like have been
well done about Postgresql.
my system is then :

- Linux server 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:36:30 UTC 
2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- Postgresql 9.1.1
- perl 5.12.4

I have followed the method descripe in the UPGRADE file of the 1.3.3 
package of LedgerSMB, to upgrade from 1.2.X to 1.3.X.
I was able to update all the required perl modules, everything goes 
well.

Here comes my questions :

First, When I load setup.pl in my brother, I fill the postgresql 
super-user credentials and my LedgerSMB database and when I click on 
"Login" an additionnal
apache2 authentication appears, at first I didn't know which user it 
was asking for, finaly it seems to be the postgresql user owner of my 
LedgerSMB database.
Is it a new security step for the 1.3.3 version ?

Second, I choose to upgrade my database, but it seems that i can't go 
further, I 'm blocked on a step where it asks me to "save and retry" 
showing me a form
where I see all the parts with only the partnumber column that I can 
modify. Even if I put all the partnumber to 1 and click to "Save and 
retry" the form reload
again and so forth... Something I have to mention is that I'm a french 
user and some of my parts description have accent that are not well 
encoded.
I have strange characters like "@A" at the place of the accents. How 
can I finish the upgrade process ?

Third, if I go to login.pl, I fill my LedgerSMB user credentials, in 
the "Company" field what do I have to fill exactly ?
again I have the additionnal apache2 authentication that I fill with my 
postgresql user owner of the LedgerSMB database.
But I cannot login, because after having tried several "Company" names, 
it says that it doesn't find the "company".

Best regards

Philippe

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