[MaffooClock]

Well, I got my server to start again.

I spent several hours trying to work around this, and I literally made ZERO progress during that time -- the most frustrating time I've ever wasted!

My solution:
I perform full backups every day, so I took the one from midnight this morning and duplicated it so I could have a working copy. I deleted everything that was data (data, index, log, openldap-data, store), and then copied what was left on top of /opt/zimbra/*. I ran `zmfixperms` and then `install.sh -s` just to make sure everything was current (I upgraded from 5.0.11 to 5.0.12 yesterday), and then I was able to start zimbra. I know this isn't exactly the right steps, but based on what I have learned so far it was the best I could do and it worked for me.

While I am relieved that i got it running again, I'm still quite angry that I had to go through all of this just to install a RapidSSL certificate. By the way, I did get the certificate installed via CLI initially and all was working fine. But once zimbra was stopped and restarted, this is what happened.

I will still watch this thread, hoping someone can give some insight on what I just went through.