Unable sign into my icloud from macbook system preferences

Hi,
This is my first post here. I searched for a few days and saw that this problem is not new and a few people have reported this and had gotten it solved.
So again, the problem is, I am not able to login to icloud from the system preferences. I am able to sign in to the web icloud.com alright.
It also works well on my iphone and ipad. The problem is only with the mac after Yosemite upgrade. It started because I found that new contacts that I added on the macbook contacts were not synced on my iphone. So I decided to logout and login again..but haven't been able to login since then.
So far I have tried
1. deleting and resetting keychains,
2. removing the applications folder in Library/Application support/icloud/applications,
3. tried logging out from other iOS devices and only from mac,
4. creating a new test user,
5. changing the apple id password.
..and none of this worked. So if anybody has any more suggestions, I would be glad to try it out.
Thanks,
  SS

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