Qlik Replicate services fail to start: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

[Dineshan]

Qlik Replicate services (Qlik Replicate Server or Qlik Replicate UI Service) may fail to start after an upgrade. Starting the services fails with:

The Qlik Replicate Server service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Qlik Replicate Server service to connect.

The Windows Event logs show:

Description: the process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. 
Exception Info: System.IO.IOException

Resolution

Verify if the drive Qlik Replicate is installed on is managed by, for example, BitLocker. Disable BitLocker or set up exceptions and start the services again.

Environment

Qlik Replicate