Sqoop Export Oozie Workflow Fails with File Not Found, Works when ran from the console - hadoop

Question

I have a hadoop cluster with 6 nodes. I'm pulling data out of MSSQL and back into MSSQL via Sqoop. Sqoop import commands work fine, and I can run a sqoop export command from the console (on one of the hadoop nodes). Here's the shell script I run:
SQLHOST=sqlservermaster.local
SQLDBNAME=db1
HIVEDBNAME=db1
BATCHID=
USERNAME="sqlusername"
PASSWORD="password"
sqoop export --connect 'jdbc:sqlserver://'$SQLHOST';username='$USERNAME';password='$PASSWORD';database='$SQLDBNAME'' --table ExportFromHive --columns col1,col2,col3 --export-dir /apps/hive/warehouse/$HIVEDBNAME.db/hivetablename
When I run this command from an oozie workflow, and it's passed the same parameters, I receive the error (when digging into the actual job run logs from the yarn scheduler screen):
**2015-10-01 20:55:31,084 WARN [main] org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl: Job init failed
org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions.YarnRuntimeException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: hdfs://hadoopnode1:8020/user/root/.staging/job_1443713197941_0134/job.splitmetainfo
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl$InitTransition.createSplits(JobImpl.java:1568)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl$InitTransition.transition(JobImpl.java:1432)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl$InitTransition.transition(JobImpl.java:1390)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$MultipleInternalArc.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:385)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:302)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory.access$300(StateMachineFactory.java:46)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.StateMachineFactory$InternalStateMachine.doTransition(StateMachineFactory.java:448)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl.handle(JobImpl.java:996)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl.handle(JobImpl.java:138)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster$JobEventDispatcher.handle(MRAppMaster.java:1312)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster.serviceStart(MRAppMaster.java:1080)
at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.start(AbstractService.java:193)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster$4.run(MRAppMaster.java:1519)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1657)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster.initAndStartAppMaster(MRAppMaster.java:1515)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.MRAppMaster.main(MRAppMaster.java:1448)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: hdfs://hadoopnode1:8020/user/root/.staging/job_1443713197941_0134/job.splitmetainfo
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$22.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1309)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$22.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:1301)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.getFileStatus(DistributedFileSystem.java:1301)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.split.SplitMetaInfoReader.readSplitMetaInfo(SplitMetaInfoReader.java:51)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.app.job.impl.JobImpl$InitTransition.createSplits(JobImpl.java:1563)
... 17 more**
Has anyone ever seen this and been able to troubleshoot it? It only happens from the oozie workflow. There are similar topics but no one seems to have solved this specific problem.
Thanks!

Answer 1

I was able to solve this problem by setting the user.name property on the job.properties file for the oozie workflow to the user yarn.
user.name=yarn
I think the problem was it did not have permission to create the staging files under /user/root. Once I modified the running user to yarn, the staging files were created under /user/yarn which did have the proper permission.