Major Description
We haven't seen this with slider, but MR and Tez have: the snappy codec failing to unzip as it can't write properly to the directory java.io.tmpdir, which is usually /tmp. In some installations, the permissions lack the "-x" bit for "others", breaking things.
The fix: launch contexts need to set the temp dir env variables to something in local paths. This also ensures that temp files get cleaned up.