Index: hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java =================================================================== --- hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java (revision 1453356) +++ hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseTestingUtility.java (working copy) @@ -1582,6 +1582,7 @@ if (jobConf == null) { jobConf = mrCluster.createJobConf(); } + this.conf = jobConf; jobConf.set("mapred.local.dir", conf.get("mapred.local.dir")); //Hadoop MiniMR overwrites this while it should not LOG.info("Mini mapreduce cluster started"); Index: pom.xml =================================================================== --- pom.xml (revision 1453356) +++ pom.xml (working copy) @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ 1.6 ${project.version} - 2.0.2-alpha + 2.0.4-SNAPSHOT 1.1.1 1.2 1.7