Evolution fails silently on first startup on KDE due to displaylink driver

[Alexander Schmiechen]

Steps to reproduce:

1) start Kubuntu 18.04
2) open Evolution

Actual results:
3) Evolution won't start
4) open process manager (ALT-ESC), find all evolution related processes and kill them
5) open Evolution again
6) from now on, it starts

Expected results:
normal startup

Reproducible:
always on first start after every reboot

No hints from the console.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: evolution 3.28.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-30.32-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Aug 14 14:39:21 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-12 (62 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alexander Schmiechen (alexander-schmiechen)]

After some investigation, bug seems to be related with the displaylink driver. It works as expected (program starts on first try) without installed displaylink driver.