diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index b6dc93edc31..09a549d7b7d 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     MAPREDUCE-6435. MapReduce client assumes the world is x86
     (Alan Burlison via aw)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6540. TestMRTimelineEventHandling fails (sjlee)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF MAPREDUCE-2841 (NATIVE TASK) SUBTASKS
 
     MAPREDUCE-5985. native-task: Fix build on macosx. Contributed by
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestMRTimelineEventHandling.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestMRTimelineEventHandling.java
index eab9026c82f..a82007f97c9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestMRTimelineEventHandling.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/TestMRTimelineEventHandling.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.MiniMRYarnCluster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.timeline.TimelineEntities;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.timeline.TimelineEntity;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.MiniYARNCluster;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.timeline.TimelineStore;
 
 import org.junit.Assert;
@@ -91,6 +92,9 @@ public class TestMRTimelineEventHandling {
           TestJobHistoryEventHandler.class.getSimpleName(), 1);
       cluster.init(conf);
       cluster.start();
+      conf.set(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_WEBAPP_ADDRESS,
+          MiniYARNCluster.getHostname() + ":"
+          + cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer().getPort());
       TimelineStore ts = cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer()
               .getTimelineStore();
 
@@ -145,6 +149,9 @@ public class TestMRTimelineEventHandling {
           TestJobHistoryEventHandler.class.getSimpleName(), 1);
       cluster.init(conf);
       cluster.start();
+      conf.set(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_WEBAPP_ADDRESS,
+          MiniYARNCluster.getHostname() + ":"
+          + cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer().getPort());
       TimelineStore ts = cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer()
           .getTimelineStore();
 
@@ -182,6 +189,9 @@ public class TestMRTimelineEventHandling {
           TestJobHistoryEventHandler.class.getSimpleName(), 1);
       cluster.init(conf);
       cluster.start();
+      conf.set(YarnConfiguration.TIMELINE_SERVICE_WEBAPP_ADDRESS,
+          MiniYARNCluster.getHostname() + ":"
+          + cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer().getPort());
       TimelineStore ts = cluster.getApplicationHistoryServer()
           .getTimelineStore();