Failed Akonadi start

[Ianseeks]

Hi

Since the upgrade to Version 6.7.0 (26.04.0) of Kontact on my personal stuff 
login, i've had issues loading, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. 
I've not upgraded postgresql at all and i've not noticed it being upgraded 
from 16 to 18 - is there a way to tie Kontact to version 16 until i decide to 
change it? I am assuming that this is the error.

regards and thanks

Ian

List of errors from CLI

ian at tower:~> akonadictl start 
org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server... 
org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Failed to start Akonadi via DBus "Did not 
receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not 
send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply 
timeout expired, or the network connection was 
broken." 
org.kde.pim.akonadictl:    done. 
ian at tower:~> Connecting to deprecated signal 
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) 
qt.qpa.services: Failed to register with host portal 
QDBusError("org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed", "Could 
not register app ID: App info not found for 'org.kde.akonadi_control'") 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Cluster PG_VERSION is 16 , PostgreSQL server 
is version  18 , will attempt to upgrade the cluster 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Postgres db cluster upgrade failed, Akonadi 
will fail to start. Sorry. 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Database process exited unexpectedly during 
initial connection! 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: executable: "/usr/bin/pg_ctl" 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: arguments: QList("start", 
"-w", "--timeout=10", 
"--pgdata=/home/ianp/.local/share/akonadi/db_data", "-o 
\"-k/run/user/1001/akonadi\" -h ''") 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stdout: "waiting for server to 
start....2026-05-08 09:53:08.389 BST   [4149]FATAL:  database files are 
incompatible with server\n2026-05-08 09:53:08.389 BST   [4
149]DETAIL:  The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 
16, which is not compatible with this version 18.3.\n" 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: stderr: "pg_ctl: control file appears to 
be corrupt\n" 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: exit code: 1 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: process error: "Unknown error" 
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Shutting down AkonadiServer... 
org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadiserver' exited 
normally...
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openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260506
kwin 6.6.4
kmail2 6.7.0 (26.04.0) - akonadiserver 6.7.0 (26.04.0) - Kernel:  7.0.3-1-
default  - kernel-firmware-radeon  20250627