diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a9e968af2545..56e37d42265c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>2.3.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
-        <jets3t.version>0.9.2</jets3t.version>
+        <jets3t.version>0.9.3</jets3t.version>
         <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
         <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>2.4.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
-        <jets3t.version>0.9.2</jets3t.version>
+        <jets3t.version>0.9.3</jets3t.version>
         <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
         <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
index 525777aa454c..6e07df18b0e1 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 package org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
-import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.ConfVars
 import org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.{ThriftBinaryCLIService, ThriftHttpCLIService}
@@ -55,8 +54,6 @@ object HiveThriftServer2 extends Logging {
       System.exit(-1)
     }
 
-    LogUtils.initHiveLog4j()
-
     logInfo("Starting SparkContext")
     SparkSQLEnv.init()