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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.ContainerManagementProtocol;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords.StartContainersRequest;
+
+/**
+ * This exception is thrown by a NodeManager that is rejecting start-container
+ * requests via
+ * {@link ContainerManagementProtocol#startContainers(StartContainersRequest)}
+ * for auxservices does not exist.
+ */
+public class InvalidAuxServiceException extends YarnException {
+
+  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+  public InvalidAuxServiceException(String msg) {
+    super(msg);
+  }
+}