Truffle migrate Error Invalid number of arguments to Solidity function

Question

Truffle 4.0.1

I've got a contract declared "is Pausable" (OpenZeppelin framework) and I want to pause it as part of the deployment logic.

I'm getting an error, however, when invoking pause()

Error: Invalid number of arguments to Solidity function
    at Object.InvalidNumberOfSolidityArgs (/Users/sofend/.nvm/versions/node/v7.5.0/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/cli.bundled.js:43290:16)

The code seems straight-forward enough:

const MyContract = artifacts.require("./MyContract.sol");

module.exports = function (deployer, network, accounts) {

    const owner = accounts[0];

    return deployer.deploy(MyContract, {from: owner})
        .then(function () {

                  return MyContract.deployed().then((instance) => {
                      // pause the  contract
                      instance.pause(/*{from: owner}*/)    // I've tried it passing in the from: owner; tried it with call() etc.
                          .catch(function (error) {
                              console.error(error.stack);
                          })
                      ;
                  })
                      .catch(function (error) {
                          console.error(error.stack);
                      })
                      ;
              }.catch(function (error) {
                  console.error(error.stack);
              })
        );
};

And have tried variations of the call to pause():

.pause.call()

.pause({from: owner})

.pause.call({from: owner})

but all give the same error: Invalid number of arguments to Solidity function

The pause() function isn't declared to take any parameters.

What am I doing wrong?