Blender 4.0.2 freezes on startup after installing BlendLuxCore

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Steps to reproduce:

1. Install BlendLuxCore from zip
2. Close all Blender instances
3. Start Blender

Error message from Blender console:

traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/blender/4.0/scripts/modules/addon_utils.py", line 364, in enable
    mod = importlib.import_module(module_name)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/disgrace/.config/blender/4.0/scripts/addons/BlendLuxCore/__init__.py", line 53, in <module>
    from .bin import pyluxcore
SystemError: initialization of pyluxcore raised unreported exception
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:241: RuntimeWarning: to-Python converter for luxrays::Property already registered; second conversion method ignored.
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>:241: RuntimeWarning: to-Python converter for luxrays::Properties already registered; second conversion method ignored.
BlendLuxCore 2.8alpha1 registered (with pyluxcore 2.6)

OS:
Blender version: 4.0.2
LuxCore version: v2.8alpha1

What happens:
blendre freezes and does not load the UI, showing a grey screen instead

[odil24]

1. Reset Blender to deafult config
2. Copy/paste BlendLuxCore folder to addons/scripts folder instead install from zip

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