After some sleep and another 8 hours, I was able to get mysqld_safe to give me an error that lead me to find that /opt/zimbra/conf/my.cnf was set that everyone had write rights. Corrected and now mysqld is running and I can successfully run mysql mysql command.
Now my zmcontrol status shows:
Hosts file contains:
zmmailboxdctl is not running
So now I am trying to figure out why zmmaildctl will not run. I'm not sure if zmmailboxdctl requires mailbox process or the other way around.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
Any help is appreciated, I don't have much hair left to pull out.