Re: start/stop error message

David wrote:
> david@kepler:/etc/init.d$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start
>  * Starting PostgreSQL 8.2 database server
>  * Error: specified cluster does not exist
>                                                          [fail]
>
> and the same error when passing "stop"
>
> The cluster clearly exists and is recognized by pg_ctl. As a result
> PostgreSQL does not start with the system and must be started and
> stopped manually.

I can imagine that you have some unsupported mixture of package
installation and manually created cluster.  But it is hard to tell
without more detail.