what is causing DBERROR?

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Hi Folks,

after upgrading my OpenBSD server from OBSD V4.7 --> V4.8, which meant going
from cyrus-imapd-2.3.16 to cyrus-imapd-2.3.16p0, we now get the following errors
in syslog when cyrus is started:

imapd/master[31550]: about to exec /usr/local/libexec/cyrus-imapd/ctl_cyrusdb
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: checkpointing cyrus databases
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: archiving database file: /var/imap/annotations.db
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR db4: no absolute path for the current
directory: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR db4: no absolute path for the current
directory: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: archiving database file: /var/imap/mailboxes.db
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR db4: no absolute path for the current
directory: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR db4: no absolute path for the current
directory: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Permission denied
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
imapd/ctl_cyrusdb[31550]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
imapd/master[14035]: process 31550 exited, status 1

In spite of all these error messages, the server seems to work...

Does anyone know what is causing this?

thanks,

Rob Urban