Sorry for the delay here. The setup is a three node master-master mariadb cluster, all running CentOS 6.5. The process to break was:
1. yum update on one of the nodes
2. MariaDB crashed during yum update, freezing yum.
3. Manually killed yum, tried to restart mariadb, instant crash
4. Ran yum remove 10.0.12-galera, downloaded and re-installed 10.0.11
5. Tried to restart mariadb, instant crash
6. Moved grastate file into home directory, tried to restart mariadb, instant crash
7. Rsync'd entire /var/lib/mysql into home directory, rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/* and then restarted mariaDB, SST completed and runs fine.
I still have all the files. Have uploaded the entire mysql.log and copies of my mysql config.
For a note: the log says "Server version: 10.0.11-MariaDB-wsrep", so apparently upgrade didn't work well enough.