NoSuchMethodError writing Avro object to HDFS using Builder
org.apache.avroSchema.Parser.parse(String s, String... more) was not introduced until Avro 1.7.5. Notice its absence in the 1.7.4 Schema.Parser documentation. Either update your HDFS node to use a more recent version of Avro, or join the Strings yourself like how the current 1.7 version of Schema does and use the method that takes a single String instead:
public static final org.apache.avro.Schema SCHEMA$ = new org.apache.avro.Schema.Parser().parse(String.join("", prevArg1, prevArg2));EDIT:I've never tried upgrading Avro on a Hadoop installation, but I would guess you could probably just find the jars and replace them manually if it's a minor version upgrade.
~/dev/hadoop/hadoop-2.7.1$ find . -name '*avro*.jar'./share/hadoop/tools/lib/avro-1.7.4.jar./share/hadoop/httpfs/tomcat/webapps/webhdfs/WEB-INF/lib/avro-1.7.4.jar./share/hadoop/common/lib/avro-1.7.4.jar./share/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/avro-1.7.4.jar./share/hadoop/kms/tomcat/webapps/kms/WEB-INF/lib/avro-1.7.4.jarTry downloading Avro 1.7.7 and replacing all those found jars with downloaded one. I would also back up the Hadoop installation in case it goes awry.