I've upgraded CDH from 5.2.1 to 5.3.2 and got the same errors as in the first message. Sqoop2 service could not be started.   After several hours of investigations I've found out that new sqoop2 is not compatible with xercesImpl.jar from libxerces2-java (Debian Wheezy). It cannot be removed because other packages depend on it.   The workaround is to remove /usr/share/java/*.jar from common.loader=... in /var/lib/sqoop2/tomcat-deployment/conf/catalina.properties. ... View more