[Droid Incredible Android Development] jermaine151:
Ok Chingy, I found an issue with your v5 Beta rom package. You don't have a busybox, but instead you have a busybox.a2sd, so it fails at symlinking everything to busybox. I pulled out busybox.a2sd, renamed it, dragged it back in and that stopped all of the symlink errors in /tmp/recovery.log. You still have the same thing happening when it goes to scan the /data/app directory and starts the loop:

D/installd( 77): DexInv: --- BEGIN '/system/app/HTCSetupWizard.apk' ---
D/dalvikvm( 1233): creating instr width table
D/dalvikvm( 1233): VFY: dead code 0x003f-0047 in Lcom/htc/android/htcsetupwizard/GoogleRestore;.star
tRestore ()V
D/dalvikvm( 1233): VFY: dead code 0x0049-004b in Lcom/htc/android/htcsetupwizard/GoogleRestore;.star
tRestore ()V
D/dalvikvm( 1233): DexOpt: load 20ms, verify 128ms, opt 5ms
D/installd( 77): DexInv: --- END '/system/app/HTCSetupWizard.apk' (success) ---
D/PackageManager( 1042): Scanning app dir /data/app
E/System ( 1042): Failure starting core service
E/System ( 1042): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/System ( 1042): at com.android.server.PackageManagerService.scanDirLI(PackageManagerService.
java:2559)
E/System ( 1042): at com.android.server.PackageManagerService.<init>(PackageManagerService.jav
a:1018)
E/System ( 1042): at com.android.server.PackageManagerService.main(PackageManagerService.java:
686)
E/System ( 1042): at com.android.server.ServerThread.run(SystemServer.java:145)
I/SystemServer( 1042): Device Policy
E/SystemServer( 1042): Failure starting DevicePolicyService
E/SystemServer( 1042): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:852)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:827)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:821)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.internal.content.PackageMonitor.register(PackageMonitor.java:
65)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.server.DevicePolicyManagerService.<init>(DevicePolicyManagerS
ervice.java:251)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.server.ServerThread.run(SystemServer.java:278)
I/SystemServer( 1042): Status Bar
E/SystemServer( 1042): Failure starting StatusBarService
E/SystemServer( 1042): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ActivityThread.getPackageInfo(ActivityThread.java:2467)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.createPackageContext(ContextImpl.java:1508)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.htc.res.HtcResources.getContext(HtcResources.java:54)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.server.status.StatusBarService.<init>(StatusBarService.java:3
62)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.server.ServerThread.run(SystemServer.java:286)
I/SystemServer( 1042): Clipboard Service
I/SystemServer( 1042): Input Method Service
E/SystemServer( 1042): Failure starting Input Manager Service
E/SystemServer( 1042): java.lang.NullPointerException
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:852)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:827)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:821)
E/SystemServer( 1042): at com.android.internal.content.PackageMonitor.register(PackageMonitor.java:
65)

After some searching, I'm wondering if the apps2sd is causing the issue for us folks that don't have apps2sd partitions set up on our cards.