For some reason, activating the kabuki theme made this error show up even at the top of the page in the /wp-admin login, as well as the dashboard even when another theme is activated. The switch over point was when the kabuki theme was activated. I am going to delete wordpress and reinstall to see how that goes.
Deprecated: Function get_currentuserinfo is deprecated since version 4.5.0! Use wp_get_current_user() instead. in /var/www/html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5383