Spark on yarn jar upload problems

Question

I am trying to run a simple Map/Reduce java program using spark over yarn (Cloudera Hadoop 5.2 on CentOS). I have tried this 2 different ways. The first way is the following

Answer 1

The problem was solved by copying spark-assembly.jar into a directory on the hdfs for each node and then passing it to spark-submit --conf spark.yarn.jar as a parameter. Commands are listed below:

hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /var/tmp/spark/spark-1.4.0-bin-hadoop2.4/lib/spark-assembly-1.4.0-hadoop2.4.0.jar /user/spark/spark-assembly.jar 

/var/tmp/spark/spark-1.4.0-bin-hadoop2.4/bin/spark-submit --class MRContainer --master yarn-cluster  --conf spark.yarn.jar=hdfs:///user/spark/spark-assembly.jar simplemr.jar