diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 409f074752..dd9da7e812 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6121. JobResourceUpdater#compareFs() doesn't handle HA namespaces
     (rchiang via rkanter)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6420. Interrupted Exception in LocalContainerLauncher should be
+    logged in warn/info level (Chang Li via jlowe)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalContainerLauncher.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalContainerLauncher.java
index 9d8b4a5abd..1a0d5fb076 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalContainerLauncher.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalContainerLauncher.java
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ public class LocalContainerLauncher extends AbstractService implements
         try {
           event = eventQueue.take();
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {  // mostly via T_KILL? JOB_KILL?
-          LOG.error("Returning, interrupted : " + e);
+          LOG.warn("Returning, interrupted : " + e);
           break;
         }