diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index d600e6784a..48b37b6e59 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
 
     YARN-140. Add capacity-scheduler-default.xml to provide a default set of configurations for the capacity scheduler. (ahmed via tucu)
 
+    YARN-179. Fix some unit test failures. (Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli via sseth)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/pom.xml
index eee1667c57..0dc93d037d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/pom.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+      <type>test-jar</type>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-common</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/UnmanagedAMLauncher.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/UnmanagedAMLauncher.java
index 7950bd155c..b9e06256a8 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/UnmanagedAMLauncher.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/UnmanagedAMLauncher.java
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ public class UnmanagedAMLauncher {
 
     appName = cliParser.getOptionValue("appname", "UnmanagedAM");
     amPriority = Integer.parseInt(cliParser.getOptionValue("priority", "0"));
-    amQueue = cliParser.getOptionValue("queue", "");
+    amQueue = cliParser.getOptionValue("queue", "default");
     classpath = cliParser.getOptionValue("classpath", null);
 
     amCmd = cliParser.getOptionValue("cmd");
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/TestUnmanagedAMLauncher.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/TestUnmanagedAMLauncher.java
index 0c417bb7cb..199f64d36e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/TestUnmanagedAMLauncher.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-unmanaged-am-launcher/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/unmanagedamlauncher/TestUnmanagedAMLauncher.java
@@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ public class TestUnmanagedAMLauncher {
     String[] args = {
         "--classpath",
         classpath,
+        "--queue",
+        "default",
         "--cmd",
         javaHome
             + "/bin/java -Xmx512m "
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
index 45fbc0070c..10cf85b657 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-client/pom.xml
@@ -38,5 +38,12 @@
   		<artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
 		<scope>test</scope>
   	</dependency>
+      <dependency>
+  		<groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager</artifactId>
+		<scope>test</scope>
+		<type>test-jar</type>
+      </dependency>
+
   </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
index df01f59f4c..4534b2746b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/CapacityScheduler.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.QueueInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.QueueUserACLInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ResourceRequest;
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.factory.providers.RecordFactoryProvider;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.RMAuditLogger;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.RMAuditLogger.AuditConstants;
@@ -111,21 +110,18 @@ implements ResourceScheduler, CapacitySchedulerContext, Configurable {
     }
   };
 
+  @Override
   public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
-    if (conf instanceof YarnConfiguration) {
-      yarnConf = (YarnConfiguration) conf;
-    } else {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can only configure with " +
-					 "YarnConfiguration");
-    }
+      yarnConf = conf;
   }
 
+  @Override
   public Configuration getConf() {
     return yarnConf;
   }
 
   private CapacitySchedulerConfiguration conf;
-  private YarnConfiguration yarnConf;
+  private Configuration yarnConf;
   private RMContext rmContext;
 
   private Map<String, CSQueue> queues = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, CSQueue>();