I loaded up myphpadmin and renamed metastore_backup_directory to a backup value. Service started right up and everything is working now. No clue what caused the problem in the first place.

The greyhole service is refusing to start. I tried the troubleshooting steps from the wiki (clearing work queue) as well as the last couple posts here in the forums where the service wouldn't start. Greyhole was set to auto-update until about a week ago but I removed the repo when I got tired of hav...