App Store doesn't install updates

After installing Yosemite the App Store app quit installing updates. It kept remembering me there were updates to be installed. After clicking the 'upgrade all' button the showed the install bar briefly, then quit, then showed the message the updated was installed. But it wasn't and the notification remained. So, the NTP security update was not installed and I couldn't update tot 10.10.2 or Safari 8.2. The manual combo update to 10.10.2 refused to download and in the end every file I downloaded was corrupted.
So I put my Mac in Recovery Mode, performed a clean install en manually installed all my apps, preventing reinstalling any possible corrupt file from Tim Machine. After the clean install there was all kind of strange behaviour. Apps couldn't write their prefs, kept asking my password for installing a helper app, things I had never seen before. Command-I and changing folder permissions and repairing permissions with Disk Utility solved these problems in the end.
But the App Store problem is still there. Buying apps works. Downloading previousd bought apps works. But updating still fails.
I have cleaned caches, cleaned update folders, and threw away .plists. Logged in and out, rebooted and restarted in Safe Mode. Here you can see what I get. It is in Dutch, but it must be pretty clear in every language.
I have no idea what to do now.

Well, nothing has changed. I performed a clean install shortly after my last reply and for a month or so everything worked. But now it's the same. Apps I bought are updated fine, but every update from Apple refuses to install. It must be a problem with permissions. After the clean install Word refused to update. Disk Warrior and Drive Genius couldn't run because of wrong permission. Preview couldn't find the printer driver for my Canon Pixma. And the Apple updates refuse to install. After tinkering with the permissions of maps in the Library, most of the problems disappeared, but the Apple updates refuse to install. Tunes Cleaner still has permissions problems. Downloading the update to 10.10.3 and latest iTunes also tanks.
There must be another solution than a clean install, as this again will probably work for just a few weeks.
This is what happens when I connect to the App Store. xxxxxx is my username. Could this be caused by a hardware failure?
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:24,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (0 total, 0 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:25,025 genatsdb[871]: sandbox cache error 8: attempt to write a readonly database
15-04-15 19:11:25,039 genatsdb[871]: SQLite: unixTruncateDatabase() failed with 10 for replacing '/private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000c4000031/C/com.apple.sandbox/san dbox-cache.db' with flags 0
15-04-15 19:11:25,039 genatsdb[871]: sandbox cache could not be reset
15-04-15 19:11:26,145 fontd[865]: ATS is unable to switch to Read/Write database - ATS will run off of a read-only database. Only System Fonts will be available.
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:27,000 kernel[0]: BUG in process suhelperd[243]: over-released legacy external boost assertions (1 total, 1 external, 0 legacy-external)
15-04-15 19:11:31,692 Console[878]: Failed to connect (_consoleX) outlet from (NSApplication) to (ConsoleX): missing setter or instance variable
15-04-15 19:11:33,980 bird[885]: created directory has a wrong owner (value: root, expected: xxxxxxx)
15-04-15 19:11:33,980 bird[885]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"
15-04-15 19:11:33,981 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird[885]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
15-04-15 19:11:33,981 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
15-04-15 19:11:44,014 bird[898]: created directory has a wrong owner (value: root, expected: xxxxxx)
15-04-15 19:11:44,014 bird[898]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"
15-04-15 19:11:44,015 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird[898]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
15-04-15 19:11:44,015 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
15-04-15 19:11:54,053 bird[910]: created directory has a wrong owner (value: root, expected: xxxxxxx)
15-04-15 19:11:54,053 bird[910]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"
15-04-15 19:11:54,054 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird[910]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
15-04-15 19:11:54,054 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
15-04-15 19:12:04,090 bird[921]: created directory has a wrong owner (value: root, expected: xxxxxxx)
15-04-15 19:12:04,090 bird[921]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"
15-04-15 19:12:04,091 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird[921]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
15-04-15 19:12:04,091 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
15-04-15 19:12:14,128 bird[932]: created directory has a wrong owner (value: root, expected: xxxxxxx)
15-04-15 19:12:14,128 bird[932]: iCloud Drive is not able to run, please run "Repair Disk Permissions" in "Disk Utility"
15-04-15 19:12:14,129 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird[932]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1
15-04-15 19:12:14,129 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.bird) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
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