I finally succeeded in starting it again. I kill -9'd the ctl_cyrusdb
process.
On shutdown it wrote this in the syslog:
Nov 15 22:30:20 doohan cyrus/master[12843]: process 12844 exited, signaled to
death by 9
Nov 15 22:30:21 doohan cyrus/master[12980]: about to exec /usr/sbin/ctl_deliver
Nov
Platform: Intel Pentium II,
debian etch,
cyrus21-imapd 2.1.18-5.1
When starting up cyrus with
/etc/init.d/cyrus21 start
the only cyrus process running is
/usr/sbin/ctl_cyrusdb -r
and it's running using ~99% CPU, but with little memory and disk use
What's printed in /var/log/