https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/quot-bad-substitution-quot-error-running-Spark-on-Yarn/m-p/135402#M98061 <P>We tried all of Ali's suggestions but we were only successful by hard-coding the ${hdp.version} in the mapreduce.application.classpath:</P><PRE>$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/mapreduce/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/yarn/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/yarn/lib/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/hdfs/*:$PWD/mr-framework/hadoop/share/hadoop/hdfs/lib/*:/usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hadoop/lib/hadoop-lzo-0.6.0.2.3.4.0-3485.jar:/etc/hadoop/conf/secure</PRE> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:44:52 GMT bcobb 2016-03-23T02:44:52Z