So I tried a fix found on the list... "The issue was due to meos version mismatch as I am using latest mesos 0.17.0, but spark uses 0.13.0. Fixed by updating the SparkBuild.scala to latest version."
I changed this line in SparkBuild.scala "org.apache.mesos" % "mesos" % "0.13.0", to "org.apache.mesos" % "mesos" % "0.18.0", ...ran make-distribution.sh, repackaged and redeployed the tar.gz to HDFS. It still core dumps like this: https://gist.github.com/stevencox/11002498 In this environment: Ubuntu 13.10 Mesos 0.18.0 Spark 0.9.1 JDK 1.7.0_45 Scala 2.10.1 What am I missing?