diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 3e43130ad00..1b7be048c7b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -498,6 +498,8 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7749. Add a NetUtils createSocketAddr call which provides more
     help in exception messages. (todd)
 
+    HADOOP-7762. Common side of MR-2736. (eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
   
     HADOOP-7333. Performance improvement in PureJavaCrc32. (Eric Caspole
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
index e17f019d0e7..f3cfed346be 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop
@@ -63,22 +63,6 @@ case $COMMAND in
     fi
     ;;
 
-  #mapred commands  
-  mradmin|jobtracker|tasktracker|pipes|job|queue)
-    echo "DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute mapred command is deprecated."
-    echo "Instead use the mapred command for it."
-    echo ""
-    #try to locate mapred and if present, delegate to it.
-    if [ -f "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/mapred ]; then
-      exec "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/mapred $*
-    elif [ -f "${HADOOP_PREFIX}"/bin/mapred ]; then
-      exec "${HADOOP_PREFIX}"/bin/mapred $* 
-    else
-      echo "MAPRED not found."
-      exit
-    fi
-    ;;
-
   classpath)
     if $cygwin; then
       CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w "$CLASSPATH"`
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
index 0803fe268a3..4cd10a3250f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-config.sh
@@ -248,24 +248,8 @@ if $cygwin; then
   HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=`cygpath -w "$HADOOP_HDFS_HOME"`
 fi
 
-# set mapred home if mapred is present
-if [ "$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME" = "" ]; then
-  if [ -d "${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/mapreduce" ]; then
-    HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX
-  fi
-fi
-
-if [ -d "$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/webapps" ]; then
-  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/webapps
-fi
-
-if [ -d "$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/lib" ]; then
-  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/share/hadoop/mapreduce/lib'/*'
-fi
-
 # cygwin path translation
 if $cygwin; then
-  HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=`cygpath -w "$HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME"`
   TOOL_PATH=`cygpath -p -w "$TOOL_PATH"`
 fi
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/start-all.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/start-all.sh
index 646c9b78020..57fb3d6c744 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/start-all.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/start-all.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,3 @@ bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
 if [ -f "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/start-dfs.sh ]; then
   "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/start-dfs.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
 fi
-
-# start mapred daemons if mapred is present
-if [ -f "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/start-mapred.sh ]; then
-  "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/start-mapred.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
-fi
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/stop-all.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/stop-all.sh
index 9adb5a4e031..a2b5ddb716a 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/stop-all.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/stop-all.sh
@@ -29,9 +29,3 @@ bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
 if [ -f "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/stop-dfs.sh ]; then
   "${HADOOP_HDFS_HOME}"/bin/stop-dfs.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
 fi
-
-# stop mapred daemons if mapred is present
-if [ -f "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/stop-mapred.sh ]; then
-  "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}"/bin/stop-mapred.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
-fi
-
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
index f2826b69a6f..da57735d6a7 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #*.sink.ganglia.tagsForPrefix.dfs=
 #*.sink.ganglia.tagsForPrefix.rpc=
 #*.sink.ganglia.tagsForPrefix.mapred=
-#*.sink.ganglia.tagsForPrefix.fairscheduler=
 
 #namenode.sink.ganglia.servers=yourgangliahost_1:8649,yourgangliahost_2:8649