Install OS X Yosemite (not responding)

HI, I have Mavericks 10.9.5 on a MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch Late 2013 (bought at the beginning of this year), when I try to run the Yosemite Installer, the installer just hangs and beachballs. No screen or info appears. Nothing. Using Force Quit shows me the application is in the "(not responding)" state.
I've downloaded it again, same result.
I quit every running program I could find, including background stuff like Adobe Creative Cloud, Bartender, and Flux and so on, same result.
I tried to use a clean user account with very little running in the background, same result.
Google doesn't turn up any relevant results yet.

- Booting in safe mode and it will run
- After booting into safe mode (during which the disk permissions and the disk sectors are repaired), the installer can run in not-safe mode.
- Therefore repair disk permissions / repair disk is the solution.

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