diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 352378a530f..9a80dddedf8 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
     MAPREDUCE-4031. Prevent a Node Manager hang during shutdown. 
     (Devaraj K via sseth)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4336. Distributed Shell fails when used with the CapacityScheduler
+    (ahmed via tucu)
+
 Release 2.0.0-alpha - 05-23-2012
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/Client.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/Client.java
index 55205f23ac3..bfea87af42e 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/Client.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-applications/hadoop-yarn-applications-distributedshell/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/applications/distributedshell/Client.java
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ public class Client {
 
     appName = cliParser.getOptionValue("appname", "DistributedShell");
     amPriority = Integer.parseInt(cliParser.getOptionValue("priority", "0"));
-    amQueue = cliParser.getOptionValue("queue", "");
+    amQueue = cliParser.getOptionValue("queue", "default");
     amMemory = Integer.parseInt(cliParser.getOptionValue("master_memory", "10"));		
 
     if (amMemory < 0) {
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ public class Client {
     }
 
     GetQueueInfoRequest queueInfoReq = Records.newRecord(GetQueueInfoRequest.class);
+    queueInfoReq.setQueueName(this.amQueue);
     GetQueueInfoResponse queueInfoResp = applicationsManager.getQueueInfo(queueInfoReq);		
     QueueInfo queueInfo = queueInfoResp.getQueueInfo();
     LOG.info("Queue info"