Service Fabric not starting service Error: FABRIC_E_CERTIFICATE_NOT_FOUND

I am trying to publish a Service Fabric service to my local cluster, but it never goes out of this state:

There was an error during activation.Failed to configure certificate permissions. Error: FABRIC_E_CERTIFICATE_NOT_FOUND

Do you know what is this error related to?
How can I fix it?

Solution

As the error says, SF is unable to find the required cert in Cert store. You can find the missing cert info from the event error logs in Event Viewer-

%SystemRoot%\System32\Winevt\Logs\Microsoft-ServiceFabric%4Admin.evtx

Check using Certificate Manager if this cert is present and not expired. You can use this script also.

More info regarding the required certs can be found in this file. -

C:\SfDevCluster\Data\_App\_Node_0\{AppNameFromSf}\App.1.0.xml