I just found the problem. It's kind of obvious in retrospect. I guess I just skimmed over it when looking at the logs before:
Code:
[Error] Load Shared Library 'libEMuShareMem.so' failed. Error=libEMuShareMem.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[Debug] [WORLD__INIT_ERR] Error: Could not load item data. But ignoring
I had added the location of the library to my path at one point... but forgot to add it to a startup script so it got cleared when I logged out of that terminal shell. Now it's linked correctly and everything seems to be working. Thank you for your help, Congdar.