I solved this problem by change the owner and permission of dr.who path: chown -R root:root /var/log/hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/dr.who chmod -R 400 /var/log/hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/dr.who or chown -R root:root /hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/dr.who chmod -R 400 /hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/dr.who Now, the "NodeManagers" don't stop for this problem anymore. ... View more