Mysqld freezes / stops while perfoming recovery after crash

Hey there,

after a crash mysql doesn't start up properly anymore:

# mysqld --verbose
070403 17:27:01 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the
doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
070403 17:27:01 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 15 1495556889.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 15
1495556889

I've been waiting for half an hour (it's not a very big database) but
there was no progress. There is no pid in /var/run and I can't connect
to mysqld with the client. Does anyone have an idea how I could get
mysqld started again?

Thanks,
Benjamin