The error quotes a missing function that has been present in Oozie since CDH 5.5.0. It therefore appears that somehow your environment is keeping or passing around an older jar of 'oozie-sharelib-oozie' artifact that is without this added function. If its your sharelib that's carrying a bad file, you can inspect it via: # hadoop fs -ls -R /user/oozie/ | grep sharelib-oozie The above should return only a single jar file size and the version of the filename should match what you are running. If you get 3 or more files in the output, consider redeploying your ShareLib via https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/admin_oozie_sharelib.html#concept_i2f_r5t_2r If you just get one version of the jar instead, then perhaps some application jar of your project(s) is assembling a fat jar that includes Oozie Sharelib dependencies in it, albeit from a non-CDH version, or a very old CDH version (< 5.5.0). You can inspect suspect jars by running: # jar tf filename.jar | grep LauncherMain Repack all such Oozie-including jars to exclude Oozie dependencies in them, as the system classpath will already provide the dependencies and of the right version. ... View more