diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 81899f99798..611d9d9d75f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-4181  HConnectionManager can't find cached HRegionInterface and makes clients
                work very slow (Jia Liu)
    HBASE-4156  ZKConfig defaults clientPort improperly (Michajlo Matijkiw)
+   HBASE-4184  CatalogJanitor doesn't work properly when "fs.default.name" isn't
+               set in config file (Ming Ma)
 
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/CatalogJanitor.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/CatalogJanitor.java
index 0692375c178..b53e9a03508 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/CatalogJanitor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/CatalogJanitor.java
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ class CatalogJanitor extends Chore {
           if (left == null) return -1;
           if (right == null) return 1;
           // Same table name.
-          int result = Bytes.compareTo(left.getTableDesc().getName(),
-            right.getTableDesc().getName());
+          int result = Bytes.compareTo(left.getTableName(),
+            right.getTableName());
           if (result != 0) return result;
           // Compare start keys.
           result = Bytes.compareTo(left.getStartKey(), right.getStartKey());