Display preferences pane could not be loaded I am running OS X 10.10.3 and I tried to rotate the internal display of my Macbook Pro using this rotation trick. After I selected the 180 degree rotation, the screen rotated properly but all the rotation options were grayed out so I closed the System Preferences to try the process again.

When I go to my OS X Display preferences I get the error "Display preferences pane could not be loaded".

How do I reorient my Macbook display back to the standard orientation without erasing everything on the hard drive and reinstalling OS X?
This is so old, and I guess they've fixed it in El Capitan. One of the worst bugs I've ever ran into, because once it's triggered you'd struggle to fix it while your screen is upside down, especially if you don't have any peripherals handy. So, here are the steps just in case some unfortunate souls run into this.
* Assuming you're doing this on MacBook, or otherwise you know you're dealing with your main display. If you know better, run fb-rotate without parameters for help message.
Manually

Go to https://github.com/CdLbB/fb-rotate
Instead of following the instructions at the top to download the source and compile, you might want to scroll down, download the binary and run it directly. There's certainly risk, but your screen is now upside down so.
Follow the links, download fb-rotateNEW2.zip and extract it.
Open your favorite terminal such as Terminal.app
Go to where you've extracted it e.g. cd ~/Downloads/fb-rotateNEW2/
Run: ./fb-rotate -d0 -r0

Easy way
Copy the following single line and paste it into Terminal.app (Note the link and names might change, so if it fails fall back to the manual steps above. If you don't see 'done' at the end of the output it failed):
cd ~/Downloads &amp;&amp; curl -LO http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6347985/Modbookish/Downloads/MacFlip/fb-rotateNEW2.zip &amp;&amp; unzip fb-rotateNEW2.zip &amp;&amp; fb-rotateNEW2/fb-rotate -d0 -r0 &amp;&amp; echo done
If you're still getting the display preference pane error:
Open system preferences -&gt; hold option/alt key and click on its dock icon -&gt; force quit -&gt; re-open it
That should fix it.
I managed to find the answer and fixed this like a real engineer, flipping my mbpr one way to type, another way to read, so proud of myself after this. God bless.