https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Spark-Thrift-Server-Continually-Stops/m-p/120560#M83328 <P>Hi Mark, dealing with Spark Thrift issue too on v2.5.3. I noticed my times are not in sync on all the nodes.</P><P>I'm behind a proxy so my ntpd wasn't updating. Probably not your issue but might be good to keep in mind. </P><P>17/02/23 12:24:07 INFO Client: client token: N/A diagnostics: Application application_1487754339887_0003 failed 2 times due to Error launching appattempt_1487754339887_0003_000002. Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions.YarnException: Unauthorized request to start container. This token is expired. current time is 1487845447016 found 1487756740753 Note: System times on machines may be out of sync. Check system time and time zones. at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.impl.pb.SerializedExceptionPBImpl.instantiateException(SerializedExceptionPBImpl.java:168) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.impl.pb.SerializedExceptionPBImpl.deSerialize(SerializedExceptionPBImpl.java:106) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.amlauncher.AMLauncher.launch(AMLauncher.java:122) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.amlauncher.AMLauncher.run(AMLauncher.java:250) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) . Failing the application. ApplicationMaster host: N/A ApplicationMaster RPC port: -1 queue: default start time: 1487756139363 final status: FAILED tracking URL: <A href="http://HNode2.quasar.com:8088/cluster/app/application_1487754339887_0003" target="_blank">http://HNode2.quasar.com:8088/cluster/app/application_1487754339887_0003</A> user: hive</P> Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:34:19 GMT nico_jordaan 2017-02-23T18:34:19Z