Logic Pro won't start anymore

It's the latest Logic Pro 9.1.8
If i try to open any project I see the GUI for about three seconds but it's frozen. Then Logic crashes. If i open Logic without any project or with the audio engine disabled or with all AUs disabled makes no difference. It still crashes right on startup. I tried trashing the preferences, I even did a reinstall of Logic, but i had no success. I have no idea what to do next and it already cost me a full day of work.
Any advice is very appreciated!

maybe i should add that i of course tried to fix the permissions without success.
another thing i tried is starting Logic from a dummy user and it seems to work from that account. so could reimporting my user account from my time machine backup fix this or would it just reimport the problem?

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Not sure if this will help, as it may not be related to what you're experiencing...
But in the past, when Logic wouldn't start. it was always recommended to trash the Logic preferences, and then re-launch the program.
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Reinstall the OS. If the Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade.
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11-05-16 5:02:04 PM     [0x0-0x44044].org.x.X11[20759]     font_cache: Done
11-05-16 5:02:04 PM     org.x.privileged_startx[20781]     font_cache: Done

Here is the solution: there was nothing wrong with x11 per se!
The problem was that about 30 files in /usr/bin (like gzip, egrep, hexdump etc) had been hosed (they had 0 file size). The puzzling messages was due to the fact that startx uses hexdump, which was simply silently doing nothing (since it had 0 size!).
I do not know what or when these files were zeroed: I suspect a recent OSX update which did not complete and I had to forcefully reboot.
I have fixed it enough to work (copying those files from another mac), but who knows what else lurks beneath the surface of apparent serenity!
I am actually surprised that the whole system did not stop functioning completely.
MORALE: if something looks strange in the logs with x11 or other apps, check the file sizes in your /usr/bin, you may be surprised too!

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