Hi, There was another related question
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-spark-user/201506.mbox/%3CCAJ2peNeruM2Y2Tbf8-Wiras-weE586LM_o25FsN=+z1-bfw...@mail.gmail.com%3E Some months ago, if I remember well, using spark 1.3 + YARN + Java 8 we had the same probem. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6388 BTW, nowadays we chose use java 7
