Problems with 1.4.2

I have my database (PostgreSQL 9.3) on one Ubuntu 14.04 machine and my LedgerSMB 1.4.2 on another Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I updated LSMB from 1.3.33 (I think) via 1.3.44, 1.4.0 and 1.4.1.

My database contains a small number of entries going back 3 or four years (mainly GL). The language is German (Switzerland).

Problem 1)

My books are closed after a year-end. I tried to reopen them. My browser says:

Error!

Access Denied
More information has been reported in the error logs at LedgerSMB.pm line 775.

dbversion: 1.4.2, company: my-company

I get the following error in my PostgreSQL log:

2014-10-04 20:05:51 GMT ERROR:  permission denied for sequence account_checkpoint_id_seq

2014-10-04 20:05:51 GMT CONTEXT:  SQL statement "INSERT INTO 

                account_checkpoint (end_date, account_id, amount, debits, credits)

            SELECT in_end_date, COALESCE(a.chart_id, cp.account_id),

                    COALESCE(SUM (a.amount),0) + coalesce(MAX (cp.amount), 0),

                    COALESCE(SUM (CASE WHEN (a.amount < 0) THEN a.amount ELSE 0 END), 0) +

                     COALESCE( MIN (cp.debits), 0),

                    COALESCE(SUM (CASE WHEN (a.amount > 0) THEN a.amount ELSE 0 END), 0) +

                     COALESCE( MAX (cp.credits), 0)

                FROM 

                (SELECT * FROM acc_trans WHERE transdate <= in_end_date AND

                 transdate > COALESCE(cp_date, '1200-01-01')) a

                FULL OUTER JOIN (

                        select account_id, end_date, amount, debits, credits 

                        from account_checkpoint

                        WHERE end_date = cp_date

                        ) cp on (a.chart_id = cp.account_id)

                group by COALESCE(a.chart_id, cp.account_id)"

        PL/pgSQL function eoy_create_checkpoint(date) line 27 at SQL statement

        SQL function "eoy__reopen_books_at" statement 2

2014-10-04 20:05:51 GMT STATEMENT:  SELECT * FROM "public"."eoy__reopen_books_at"('2011-10-01')

(Yes, I know it says 2011…)

Problem 2)

When I try to add a new journal entry to GL, the form comes up without a pre-generated reference number although System > Settings shows sensible “Next in Sequence” values.

Attempts at solving this:

- I thought re-running setup.pl might help, but it has not.

- I thought running lamb_reload might help, but it doesn’t appear to work with a remote database, even if I specify the DB machine with “--host”.

I’d be grateful for any assistance on this. My default action will be to back to 1.3.

Steve