diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 02a5efbbb83..05ae1444ba1 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -382,6 +382,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2206. Updated document for applications REST API response examples. (Kenji
     Kikushima and Brahma Reddy Battula via zjshen)
 
+    YARN-3602. TestResourceLocalizationService.testPublicResourceInitializesLocalDir
+    fails Intermittently due to IOException from cleanup. (zhihai xu via xgong)
+
 Release 2.7.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
index 07001ad8351..296cba6ad45 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/localizer/TestResourceLocalizationService.java
@@ -184,7 +184,11 @@ public class TestResourceLocalizationService {
   @After
   public void cleanup() throws IOException {
     conf = null;
-    FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File(basedir.toString()));
+    try {
+      FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File(basedir.toString()));
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      // ignore
+    }
   }
   
   @Test