Oozie Server failed to Start with error java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: EXTERNAL_PROPERTY

Oozie Server failed to Start with error java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: EXTERNAL_PROPERTY

This issue happens in CDH distribution of Hadoop that is managed by Cloudera Manager (possibly in other distributions as well, due to known upstream JIRA, but I have not tested). Oozie will fail to start after enabling Oozie HA through Cloudera Manager user interface. The full error message from Oozie’s process stdout.log (can be found under /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/XXX-oozie-OOZIE_SERVER/logs directory) file looks like below:
 
Wed Jan 25 11:07:41 GST 2017 
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera 
using 5 as CDH_VERSION 
using /var/lib/oozie/tomcat-deployment as CATALINA_BASE 
Copying JDBC jar from /usr/share/java/oracle-connector-java.jar to /var/lib/oozie 

ERROR: Oozie could not be started 

REASON: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: EXTERNAL_PROPERTY 

Stacktrace: 
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java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: EXTERNAL_PROPERTY 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.introspect.JacksonAnnotationIntrospector._findTypeResolver(JacksonAnnotationIntrospector.java:777) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.introspect.JacksonAnnotationIntrospector.findPropertyTypeResolver(JacksonAnnotationIntrospector.java:214) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory.findPropertyTypeSerializer(BeanSerializerFactory.java:370) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory._constructWriter(BeanSerializerFactory.java:772) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory.findBeanProperties(BeanSerializerFactory.java:586) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory.constructBeanSerializer(BeanSerializerFactory.java:430) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory.findBeanSerializer(BeanSerializerFactory.java:343) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.BeanSerializerFactory.createSerializer(BeanSerializerFactory.java:287) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider._createUntypedSerializer(StdSerializerProvider.java:782) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider._createAndCacheUntypedSerializer(StdSerializerProvider.java:735) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider.findValueSerializer(StdSerializerProvider.java:344) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider.findTypedValueSerializer(StdSerializerProvider.java:420) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider._serializeValue(StdSerializerProvider.java:601) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.StdSerializerProvider.serializeValue(StdSerializerProvider.java:256) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._configAndWriteValue(ObjectMapper.java:2566) 
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.writeValue(ObjectMapper.java:2056) 
at org.apache.oozie.util.FixedJsonInstanceSerializer.serialize(FixedJsonInstanceSerializer.java:65) 
at org.apache.curator.x.discovery.details.ServiceDiscoveryImpl.internalRegisterService(ServiceDiscoveryImpl.java:201) 
at org.apache.curator.x.discovery.details.ServiceDiscoveryImpl.registerService(ServiceDiscoveryImpl.java:186) 
at org.apache.oozie.util.ZKUtils.advertiseService(ZKUtils.java:217) 
at org.apache.oozie.util.ZKUtils.(ZKUtils.java:141) 
at org.apache.oozie.util.ZKUtils.register(ZKUtils.java:154) 
at org.apache.oozie.service.ZKLocksService.init(ZKLocksService.java:70) 
at org.apache.oozie.service.Services.setServiceInternal(Services.java:386) 
at org.apache.oozie.service.Services.setService(Services.java:372) 
at org.apache.oozie.service.Services.loadServices(Services.java:305) 
at org.apache.oozie.service.Services.init(Services.java:213) 
at org.apache.oozie.servlet.ServicesLoader.contextInitialized(ServicesLoader.java:46) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4210) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4709) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:802) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:583) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:944) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:779) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:505) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1322) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:325) 
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1068) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:822) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1060) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525) 
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:759) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) 
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) 
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414) 
To fix the issue, please follow the steps below:
  1. Delete or move the following files under CDH’s parcel directory (most likely they are symlinks):
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libserver/hive-exec.jar
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libtools/hive-exec.jar
    
  2. Download hive-exec-{cdh version}-core.jar file from the Cloudera repo, for example, for CDH5.8.2, please go to: https://repository.cloudera.com/cloudera/cloudera-repos/org/apache/hive/hive-exec/1.1.0-cdh5.8.2/ and put the file under the following directories on the Oozie server:
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libserver/
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libtools/
    
  3. Download kryo-2.22.jar from the maven repository: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/esotericsoftware/kryo/kryo/2.22/kryo-2.22.jar and put it under directories on the Oozie server:
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libserver/
    /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/oozie/libtools/
    
  4. Finally restart Oozie service
This is a known Oozie issue and reported in the upstream JIRA: OOZIE-2621, which has been resolved and targeted for 4.3.0 release. Hope this helps.

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