IPhoto fails to open with Yosemite

Hello everyone,
Since my last update of iPhoto (V 9.6) on my MacBook Pro 17 "(2011) running Yosemite: it stops during the opening of the photo library [iPhoto (not responding) in "Force applications to leave dialog"]. My tests and observations:
-The Repair permissions utility changes nothing...
-Opening of an "iPhoto library" newly created does not work more...
-My normal library (which does not open) opens fine on my other Mac : A Mac Pro 2014 running Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6 (same versions so).
-The regeneration of all iPhoto elements into libraries (general and user one) does not change anything either...
-iPhoto Library permissions are OK (R / W for everybody and current user)
Here is an excerpt of the console messages during the failure of loading:
25/10/2014 13:01:35,685 Console[20099]: Marqueur - 25 oct. 2014 13:01:35
25/10/2014 13:01:40,751 Mail[1311]: No worthy mechs found
25/10/2014 13:01:41,365 Mail[1311]: No worthy mechs found
25/10/2014 13:02:02,785 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.PhotoApps.AVCHDConverter) Unknown key for dictionary: EnvironmentVarialbles
25/10/2014 13:02:02,785 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.
25/10/2014 13:02:06,824 WindowServer[340]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "iPhoto" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
25/10/2014 13:02:06,868 iPhoto[20108]: Connection error while checking Apple Internalness. Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "Impossible de communiquer avec un utilitaire." (The connection to service named com.apple.CrashReporterSupportHelper was invalidated.) UserInfo=0x618000869400 {NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.CrashReporterSupportHelper was invalidated.}
25/10/2014 13:02:10,198 sandboxd[321]: ([20108]) iPhoto(20108) deny mach-lookup com.apple.CrashReporterSupportHelper
25/10/2014 13:02:20,824 WindowServer[340]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "iPhoto" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
25/10/2014 13:04:26,257 Console[20099]: Marqueur - 25 oct. 2014 13:04:26
It seems that the problem is contained in the line in bold, unfortunately, his interpretation is far beyond my abilities ...
Thanks in advance for your helps... :-)

As a test launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it?
If the new library fails like the current one does do the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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