diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index c1078441e31..6271a35557e 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1898. Made Standby RM links conf, stacks, logLevel, metrics, jmx, logs
     and static not be redirected to Active RM. (Xuan Gong via zjshen)
 
+    YARN-1837. Fixed TestMoveApplication#testMoveRejectedByScheduler failure.
+    (Hong Zhiguo via jianhe)
+
 Release 2.4.0 - 2014-04-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestMoveApplication.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestMoveApplication.java
index 75fd476c33b..b80a6bc560d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestMoveApplication.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/TestMoveApplication.java
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ public class TestMoveApplication {
     Application application = new Application("user1", resourceManager);
     application.submit();
 
+    // Wait for app to be accepted
+    RMApp app = resourceManager.rmContext.getRMApps()
+            .get(application.getApplicationId());
+    while (app.getState() != RMAppState.ACCEPTED) {
+      Thread.sleep(100);
+    }
+
     ClientRMService clientRMService = resourceManager.getClientRMService();
     try {
       // FIFO scheduler does not support moves