Github user DerekKaknes commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/2231
Thanks for following-up. I'm running Livy connected to a standalone
cluster, but in digging deeper it's possible that there is an issue with Livy
always configuring itself to local mode when building spark sessions. I'll
have to look at that first to see if it resolves this issue as well.---
