@Jay,

Tested with latest galera 3.x HEAD: 

/pxc56d/bin/mysqld --defaults-file=/pxc56/etc/my.cnf.local    --basedir=/pxc56d --user=mysql           --wsrep-cluster-address=gcomm://NOTEXIST --wsrep-cluster-name=NOCLUSTER  --wsrep-debug     --skip-grant-tables
2015-01-26 12:14:54 0 [Warning] WSREP: wsrep_sst_receive_address is set to '127.0.0.1:4001' which makes it impossible for another host to reach this one. Please set it to the address which this node can be connected at by other cluster members.
2015-01-26 12:14:54 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Setting wsrep_ready to 0
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Read nil XID from storage engines, skipping position init
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: wsrep_load(): loading provider library '/pxc56/lib/libgalera_smm.so'
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: wsrep_load(): Galera 3.9(rXXXX) by Codership Oy <email address hidden> loaded successfully.
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: CRC-32C: using hardware acceleration.
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Found saved state: 5d314bdc-855b-11e4-9699-bbe796316f18:-1
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Passing config to GCS: base_host = 127.0.0.1; base_port = 4567; cert.log_conflicts = no; debug = no; evs.auto_evict = 0; evs.delay_margin = PT1S; evs.delayed_keep_period = PT30S; evs.inactive_check_period = PT0.5S; evs.inactive_timeout = PT15S; evs.join_retrans_period = PT1S; evs.max_install_timeouts = 3; evs.send_window = 4; evs.stats_report_period = PT1M; evs.suspect_timeout = PT5S; evs.user_send_window = 2; evs.version = 1; evs.view_forget_timeout = PT24H; gcache.dir = /pxc56/datadir/; gcache.keep_pages_size = 0; gcache.mem_size = 0; gcache.name = /pxc56/datadir//galera.cache; gcache.page_size = 128M; gcache.size = 500M; gcs.fc_debug = 0; gcs.fc_factor = 1.0; gcs.fc_limit = 16; gcs.fc_master_slave = no; gcs.max_packet_size = 64500; gcs.max_throttle = 0.25; gcs.recv_q_hard_limit = 9223372036854775807; gcs.recv_q_soft_limit = 0.25; gcs.sync_donor = no; gmcast.listen_addr = tcp://127.0.0.1:4010; gmcast.segment = 0; gmcast.version = 0; pc.announce_timeout = PT3S; pc.checksum = false; pc.ignore_quorum =
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Service thread queue flushed.
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Assign initial position for certification: -1, protocol version: -1
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: wsrep_sst_grab()
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Start replication
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Setting initial position to 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000:-1
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: protonet asio version 0
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: Using CRC-32C for message checksums.
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: backend: asio
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Warning] WSREP: access file(gvwstate.dat) failed(No such file or directory)
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: restore pc from disk failed
2015-01-26 12:14:54 55221 [Note] WSREP: GMCast version 0
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Warning] WSREP: Failed to resolve tcp://NOTEXIST:4567
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: (d6345876, 'tcp://127.0.0.1:4010') listening at tcp://127.0.0.1:4010
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: (d6345876, 'tcp://127.0.0.1:4010') multicast: , ttl: 1
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: EVS version 1
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: gcomm: connecting to group 'NOCLUSTER', peer 'NOTEXIST:'
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] WSREP: failed to open gcomm backend connection: 131: No address to connect (FATAL)
         at gcomm/src/gmcast.cpp:connect_precheck():282
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs/src/gcs_core.cpp:long int gcs_core_open(gcs_core_t*, const char*, const char*, bool)():206: Failed to open backend connection: -131 (State not recoverable)
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs/src/gcs.cpp:long int gcs_open(gcs_conn_t*, const char*, const char*, bool)():1379: Failed to open channel 'NOCLUSTER' at 'gcomm://NOTEXIST': -131 (State not recoverable)
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] WSREP: gcs connect failed: State not recoverable
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] WSREP: wsrep::connect() failed: 7
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [ERROR] Aborting

2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: waiting for client connections to close: 0
2015-01-26 12:14:55 55221 [Note] WSREP: Service disconnected.
2015-01-26 12:14:56 55221 [Note] WSREP: Some threads may fail to exit.
2015-01-26 12:14:56 55221 [Note] Binlog end
2015-01-26 12:14:56 55221 [Note] /pxc56d/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete



So, looks fixed in the HEAD. 

Let me know if you need RPM/DEB/tar.gz for this (galera).