If its a new cluster, and its the yarn job, please make sure that you have mr-framework uploaded to /user/yarn/mapreduce/mr-framewor in hdfs. All yarn job will fail with below error if that path missing: Error: java.io.IOException: Can't get Master Kerberos principal for use as renewer $ hdfs dfs -put 3.1.1.7.1.7.2032-1-mr-framework.tar.gz /user/yarn/mapreduce/mr-framework ... View more