After upgrading HPD to 2.5 all our Sqoop jobs that imports "as-avrodatafile" fails with FATAL [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild: Error running child : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectData.addLogicalTypeConversion(Lorg/apache/avro/Conversion;)V at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.AvroOutputFormat.getRecordWriter(AvroOutputFormat.java:97) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewDirectOutputCollector.<init>(MapTask.java:647) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:767) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:168) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1724) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:162) Sqoop depends on avro version 1.8.0 (which does have that method) and I guess that the problem could be due to the presence of avro versions 1.7.4 (hbase) and 1.7.5 (hive). Please, is there a way to make yarn use version 1.8.0 instead of 1.7.x in case that is the problem? ... View more