"Enter Time Machine" - Finder stuck

Can someone point in the right direction as to where to look. Every time i click on 'Enter time machine' the finder window begins to move in to position for the space view but never gets to the final position and the rest of the windows stay in place (no controls appear, no space view) I can't close that window, i have to relaunch Finder.
Tried to tail the syslog and it's silent not even a warning or anything.
Are there any other logs i can look at, or someone know of a reason for this to happen

Yes it is, but it does have a video card but since we don't have a kvm we plug the monitor in and out, but it does have a rather beefy video card, so unless the video card goes "oh wait, the monitor is not pluged in, i'll just ignore the request" then it's just weird.
I actually tried to troubleshoot it again yesterday and without doing anything it worked, not sure if the guys in the office where the server is connected the monitor tho. But ether way it does have a video card.
I'll do some more testing with and without the monitor and get back to you, actually where the server is now.

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