Unable to authenticate myself to make changes in System Preferences or install programs

Hello everyone I am just freaking out because I don't want/can't reinstall the system!!
I just recently started having the problem that every time that I wanna install something, when it should ask me for my password to authenticate my admin account, the window never shows up and the program shows up as "Not responding". The same problem occurs when I try to click on the padlock in the System Preferences to try to make a change it changes from "click the lock to make changes" into "authenticating" but the window never shows up (images below).
I am the only user with Admin rights in my Mac OS 10.10.2; MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 10 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB.
I have tried:
- I restarted - no good.
- Repair the permissions - no good.
- Also tried repairing the keychain access - no good.
- In Terminal I tried: sudo killall -9 securityd; sudo pkill -HUP securityd; ssudo killall -HUP securityd - no good (and said that only Apple apps can do that).
I checked in the console and this comes up:
Marker - 28 Feb 2015, 4:34:54 PM
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: Critical failure: the LastResort font is unavailable.
Feb 28 16:35:01 --- last message repeated 123 times ---
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: -baselineOffsetFromBottom returned a number that is not integral in pixels.  The developer should always make sure it's pixel-integral. Break on void _NSNonPixelIntegralBaselineOffset() to debug.  This will be logged only once.  This may break in the future.
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: *** Assertion failure in -[NSISLinearExpression incrementConstant:], /SourceCache/Foundation/Foundation-1152.14/Layout.subproj/IncrementalSimplex/NS ISLinearExpression.m:620
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: An uncaught exception was raised
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: Invalid parameter not satisfying: isfinite(c)
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: (
  0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bb9066c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
  1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8b20d76e objc_exception_throw + 43
  2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bb9044a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
  3   Foundation                          0x00007fff86f7a3a9 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 195
  4   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed65e9 -[NSISLinearExpression incrementConstant:] + 163
  5   AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f11d9 -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) nsli_lowerAttribute:intoExpression:withCoefficient:forConstraint:] + 914
  6   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed59a3 lower_1_attribute + 158
  7   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed54b6 -[NSLayoutConstraint _lowerIntoExpression:reportingConstantIsRounded:] + 102
  8   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ecaf06 -[NSLayoutConstraint _addToEngine:integralizationAdjustment:mutuallyExclusiveConstraints:] + 95
  9   AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1e4e __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 470
  10  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  11  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  12  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  13  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  14  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1d50 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 216
  15  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  16  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  17  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  18  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  19  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1d50 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 216
  20  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  21  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  22  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  23  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  24  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f75ef make_and_host_engine + 249
  25  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f734f -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _didChangeHostsAutolayoutEngineTo:] + 165
  26  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9a708f -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _engageAutolayout] + 81
  27  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9a70ac -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _engageAutolayout] + 110
  28  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c973732 -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _layoutEngine_windowDidChange] + 92
  29  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d05bcde __21-[NSView _setWindow:]_block_invoke666 + 67
  30  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96b61d -[NSView _setWindow:] + 1616
  31  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c968f83 -[NSView addSubview:] + 463
  32  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c97a5c1 -[NSFrameView addSubview:] + 45
  33  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d018a21 -[NSThemeFrame addSubview:] + 400
  34  AppKit                              0x00007fff8ca0468f -[NSView addSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 208
  35  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d018880 -[NSThemeFrame _addKnownSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 60
  36  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9872b2 -[NSWindow setContentView:] + 633
  37  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96e23a -[NSWindowTemplate nibInstantiate] + 876
  38  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c942e8b -[NSIBObjectData instantiateObject:] + 309
  39  AppKit                              0x00007fff8ce272d1 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:options:topLevelObjects:] + 452
  40  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c937605 loadNib + 384
  41  AppKit                              0x00007fff8cea85ab +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:options:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 313
  42  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c936cd5 -[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:topLevelObjects:] + 201
  43  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c936aa1 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 344
  44  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fdcd8 builtinPluginCreate + 33150
  45  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f24cf SecurityAgent + 17615
  46  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f628b builtinPluginCreate + 1841
  47  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fa27f builtinPluginCreate + 18213
  48  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f5e02 builtinPluginCreate + 680
  49  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fa06d builtinPluginCreate + 17683
  50  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f109b SecurityAgent + 12443
  51  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f0373 SecurityAgent + 9075
  52  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb75c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
  53  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb8304e _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_slow_invoke + 412
  54  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb75c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
  55  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb81cbf _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 861
  56  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bae3c79 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9
  57  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8baa030f __CFRunLoopRun + 2159
  58  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8ba9f858 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
  59  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d90aef RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
  60  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d9076e ReceiveNextEventCommon + 179
  61  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d906ab _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
  62  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c953f81 _DPSNextEvent + 964
  63  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c953730 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194
  64  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c947593 -[NSApplication run] + 594
  65  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c932a14 NSApplicationMain + 1832
  66  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d200967 main + 232
  67  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff86e625c9 start + 1
  68  ???                                 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local SecurityAgent[1815]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: isfinite(c)'
  *** First throw call stack:
  0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bb9066c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
  1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8b20d76e objc_exception_throw + 43
  2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bb9044a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
  3   Foundation                          0x00007fff86f7a3a9 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 195
  4   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed65e9 -[NSISLinearExpression incrementConstant:] + 163
  5   AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f11d9 -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) nsli_lowerAttribute:intoExpression:withCoefficient:forConstraint:] + 914
  6   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed59a3 lower_1_attribute + 158
  7   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed54b6 -[NSLayoutConstraint _lowerIntoExpression:reportingConstantIsRounded:] + 102
  8   Foundation                          0x00007fff86ecaf06 -[NSLayoutConstraint _addToEngine:integralizationAdjustment:mutuallyExclusiveConstraints:] + 95
  9   AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1e4e __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 470
  10  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  11  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  12  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  13  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  14  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1d50 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 216
  15  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  16  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  17  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  18  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  19  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1d50 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke_2 + 216
  20  Foundation                          0x00007fff86ed923e -[NSISEngine withBehaviors:performModifications:] + 155
  21  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96a13a -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _withAutomaticEngineOptimizationDisabled:] + 70
  22  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f1c58 __52-[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:]_block_invoke + 482
  23  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96d0ef -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _setLayoutEngine:] + 233
  24  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f75ef make_and_host_engine + 249
  25  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9f734f -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _didChangeHostsAutolayoutEngineTo:] + 165
  26  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9a708f -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _engageAutolayout] + 81
  27  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9a70ac -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _engageAutolayout] + 110
  28  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c973732 -[NSView(NSConstraintBasedLayout) _layoutEngine_windowDidChange] + 92
  29  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d05bcde __21-[NSView _setWindow:]_block_invoke666 + 67
  30  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96b61d -[NSView _setWindow:] + 1616
  31  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c968f83 -[NSView addSubview:] + 463
  32  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c97a5c1 -[NSFrameView addSubview:] + 45
  33  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d018a21 -[NSThemeFrame addSubview:] + 400
  34  AppKit                              0x00007fff8ca0468f -[NSView addSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 208
  35  AppKit                              0x00007fff8d018880 -[NSThemeFrame _addKnownSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 60
  36  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c9872b2 -[NSWindow setContentView:] + 633
  37  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c96e23a -[NSWindowTemplate nibInstantiate] + 876
  38  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c942e8b -[NSIBObjectData instantiateObject:] + 309
  39  AppKit                              0x00007fff8ce272d1 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:options:topLevelObjects:] + 452
  40  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c937605 loadNib + 384
  41  AppKit                              0x00007fff8cea85ab +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:options:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 313
  42  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c936cd5 -[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:topLevelObjects:] + 201
  43  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c936aa1 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 344
  44  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fdcd8 builtinPluginCreate + 33150
  45  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f24cf SecurityAgent + 17615
  46  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f628b builtinPluginCreate + 1841
  47  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fa27f builtinPluginCreate + 18213
  48  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f5e02 builtinPluginCreate + 680
  49  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1fa06d builtinPluginCreate + 17683
  50  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f109b SecurityAgent + 12443
  51  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d1f0373 SecurityAgent + 9075
  52  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb75c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
  53  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb8304e _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_slow_invoke + 412
  54  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb75c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
  55  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8fb81cbf _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 861
  56  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8bae3c79 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9
  57  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8baa030f __CFRunLoopRun + 2159
  58  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8ba9f858 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
  59  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d90aef RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
  60  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d9076e ReceiveNextEventCommon + 179
  61  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff88d906ab _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
  62  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c953f81 _DPSNextEvent + 964
  63  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c953730 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194
  64  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c947593 -[NSApplication run] + 594
  65  AppKit                              0x00007fff8c932a14 NSApplicationMain + 1832
  66  SecurityAgent                       0x000000010d200967 main + 232
  67  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff86e625c9 start + 1
  68  ???                                 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local diagnosticd[89]: error evaluating process info - pid: 1815, punique: 1815
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.security.agentMain.00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000186A5[1815]): Service exited due to signal: Abort trap: 6
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.security.agentMain.00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000186A5): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local ReportCrash[1795]: Saved crash report for SecurityAgent[1815] version 9.0 (55225.10.1) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SecurityAgent_2015-02-28-163501_MacBook-Pro.cra sh
Feb 28 16:35:01 MacBook-Pro.local ReportCrash[1795]: Removing excessive log: file:///Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SecurityAgent_2015-02-28-163131_MacBook- Pro.crash
Feb 28 16:35:07 MacBook-Pro.local networkd[150]: -[NETProxyLookup pacLookupComplete:proxies:error:] PAC evaluation error: Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=2 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 2.)" UserInfo=0x7fb638535d50 {kCFGetAddrInfoFailureKey=8}

Hi my ginger,
Thanks for the reply, I did what you recommended and reinstall with Command+R and you were right all my files survived!
Unfortunately the situation persist I keep having the same problem and I cannot  authenticate! Still the window to enter my password doesn't show and the lock stays saying "authenticating" even after I reinstalled! :-( what could it be? !

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