diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
index e9f4cc025c..5ab84a9767 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs-client</artifactId>
     </dependency>
 
-
     <!-- 'mvn dependency:analyze' fails to detect use of this dependency -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/api/impl/TimelineConnector.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/api/impl/TimelineConnector.java
index 27db19b7dd..c4ab169633 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/api/impl/TimelineConnector.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/client/api/impl/TimelineConnector.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException;
 import java.net.ConnectException;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
@@ -361,7 +362,8 @@ public Object retryOn(TimelineClientRetryOp op)
           // sleep for the given time interval
           Thread.sleep(retryInterval);
         } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
-          LOG.warn("Client retry sleep interrupted! ");
+          Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+          throw new InterruptedIOException("Client retry sleep interrupted!");
         }
       }
       throw new RuntimeException("Failed to connect to timeline server. "