Console window is not showing

Hi fellows,
Today I found a problem with my built in console in Mac OS X Mavericks.
The problem happens randomly. I'll explain it in steps.
1. Click on the console icon - the console opens.
2. From the menu - Console/Quit Console - the console closes.
3. Click on the console icon - the console starts - but no window is displayed. There is mark under the icon, showing the the program is active, the top menus are present, but no window is displayed.
4. After several quits and restarts at some point the console window reapers and there is log message in the sys.log saying:
Oct 31 12:44:03 My-MacBook-Pro.local Console[370]: (
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c71425c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8fa0ee75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c71410c +[NSException raise:format:] + 204
3   Foundation                          0x00007fff9301a99a -[NSURL(NSURL) initFileURLWithPath:] + 113
4   Foundation                          0x00007fff9301a90d +[NSURL(NSURL) fileURLWithPath:] + 43
5   Console                             0x0000000101ea86c6 Console + 42694
6   Console                             0x0000000101eadfa1 Console + 65441
7   Console                             0x0000000101ebc2b3 Console + 123571
8   Console                             0x0000000101ebc38f Console + 123791
9   Console                             0x0000000101ebac85 Console + 117893
10 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c6e2e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
11 CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8c5d682d _CFXNotificationPost + 2893
12 Foundation                          0x00007fff92ffde4a -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 68
13 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d01ab69 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 289
14 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d01a89c -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 195
15 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d01318a _DPSNextEvent + 1238
16 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d01289b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122
17 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d00699c -[NSApplication run] + 553
18 AppKit                              0x00007fff8cff1783 NSApplicationMain + 940
19 libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff927065fd start + 1
20 ???                                 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
Oct 31 12:44:08 My-MacBook-Pro.local Console[371]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.
Oct 31 12:44:08 My-MacBook-Pro.local Console[371]: *** -[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter
Oct 31 12:44:08 --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Video of my problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmXln1CNgM&feature
How can I fix the console and make it to appear every time I start the application?
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
Kind Regards,
Nick

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Console.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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