Transfer ownership web3 - solidity

Question

I am creating a dapp to transfer ownership of the contract from one address to another using testrpc. However,I keep encountering this problem. I have tried using sentransaction method to do perform this ownership change.Perhaps I'm calling the exchange in a wrong manner.
Solidity version 0.4.4
web3 "version": "0.20.2"
web3.js:3127 Uncaught Error: VM Exception while processing transaction: invalid opcode
at Object.InvalidResponse (web3.js:3127)
at RequestManager.send (web3.js:6332)
at Eth.send [as sendTransaction] (web3.js:5066)
at SolidityFunction.sendTransaction (web3.js:4122)
at SolidityFunction.execute (web3.js:4208)
at transferOwnership (luxcure_manu.html:309)
at HTMLButtonElement.onclick (luxcure_manu.html:378
Full solidity contract as of yet.
pragma solidity ^0.4.4;
// TODO: Hash of the cert through IPFS Hash
// Transfer ownership of smart contract
contract LuxSecure {
address public contract_owner; //Manufacturer/owner
//string public current_owner; //Current Owner of good
bytes32 public model; //Model
mapping(uint => address) public owners; //list of owners
uint256 public owners_count;
bytes32 public status; // (Public(Owned by no one), Private(Bought by another entity),stolen(Stolen from public or private))
bytes32 public date_manufactured; //Time
// Set manufacturer of the Good RUN ONCE ONLY
function manufacturer() public{
if(owners_count == 0){
contract_owner = msg.sender;
}
}
//Modifier that only allows owner of the bag to Smart Contract AKA Good to use the function
modifier onlyOwner(){
require(msg.sender == contract_owner);
_;
}
// Add a new product to the blockchain with a new serial
function addNewGoods(bytes32 _model,bytes32 _status, bytes32 _date_manufactured) public returns(bool made) {//Declare Goods struct
setOwner(msg.sender);
model = _model;
status = _status;
date_manufactured = _date_manufactured;
return true;
}
//This function transfer ownership of contract from one entity to another
function transferOwnership(address _newOwner) public onlyOwner(){
require(_newOwner != address(0));
contract_owner = _newOwner;
}
//Set the KEY to uint256 and VALUE owner Ethereum Address
function setOwner(address owner)public{
owners_count += 1 ;
owners[owners_count] = owner;
}
//Get the previous owner in the mappings
function previousOwner()constant public returns(address){
if(owners_count != 0){
uint256 previous_owner = owners_count - 1;
return owners[previous_owner];
}
}
// Getter Methods
function getManufacturer() constant public returns(address){
return contract_owner;
}
function getCurrentOwner() constant public returns(address){
return owners[owners_count] ;
}
function getOwnerCount() constant public returns(uint256){
return owners_count;
}
function getModel() constant public returns(bytes32){
return model;
}
function getStatus() constant public returns(bytes32){
return status;
}
function getDateManufactured() constant public returns(bytes32){
return date_manufactured;
}
}// end of LuxSecure
Javascript to perform the transfer of ownership
function transferOwnership(){
var account_to_transfer = document.getElementById("ethereumaddress").value;
contract.transferOwnership(account_to_transfer,{
from:web3.eth.accounts[0],
gas:4000000
});
}

Answer 1

I don't see any particular mistake in your code. Maybe a bad formatting on the front-side, but can't guess for sure as we have partial front here.
I don't know if it will be some help but sometimes, using truffle, it happened to me to have some functions that returned bad opcode from testrpc/ganache-cli while no apparent error was in the code.
Deleting the ABI, recompiling the smart-contracts to get a brand new ABI and then redeploying the contracts solved the problem.