I'm having the same problem.   It appears that in CDH 5.3 they're shipping joda-time 1.6 in the hadoop/lib directory so its being added to the YARN classpath. I think this is in error.   Could someone from Cloudera confirm?   The quickest (dirtiest) fix would be to remove joda-time.jar / joda-time-1.6.jar from /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/hadoop/client and hadoop-mapreduce   -Adam ... View more