diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
index d9fd0e4a414..7c224a5813d 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/ZKConfigurationStore.java
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ public class ZKConfigurationStore extends YarnConfigurationStore {
     try {
       Map<String, String> map =
           (HashMap<String, String>) deserializeObject(serializedSchedConf);
-      Configuration c = new Configuration();
+      Configuration c = new Configuration(false);
       for (Map.Entry<String, String> e : map.entrySet()) {
         c.set(e.getKey(), e.getValue());
       }
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/TestZKConfigurationStore.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/TestZKConfigurationStore.java
index 0e1a1e648e8..6e7cb545d30 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/TestZKConfigurationStore.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/capacity/conf/TestZKConfigurationStore.java
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ public class TestZKConfigurationStore extends ConfigurationStoreBaseTest {
     confStore.initialize(conf, schedConf, rmContext);
     assertEquals("val", confStore.retrieve().get("key"));
 
+    assertNull(confStore.retrieve().get(YarnConfiguration.RM_HOSTNAME));
+
     // Create a new configuration store, and check for old configuration
     confStore = createConfStore();
     schedConf.set("key", "badVal");