FDLauncher cannot be stopped automatically


If you are using Full text index, then you should have a service named ‘MSSQLFDLauncher’, and usually it should be stopped automatically when you stop SQL Server serivce. This is the expected behavior because SQL Server will send request to service control manager to stop the FDlauncher.

 

 

But recently I’m trying to configure my SQL Server service account with the GMSA account, however, when I stopped SQL Server, the FDLauncher was not stopped automatically. So I collected a service ETL log, and found below errors:

[6] 0008.41C8::03/07/22-14:00:27.5646147 [SCM] scopen_cxx1027 ScOpenService() – ScOpenService: ScAccessValidate Failed 5, service MSSQLFDLauncher