Ubuntu
procps package

  1. Bug #1610499
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1610499

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Zak Peirce (plastikman) wrote : Re: /bin/kill in ubuntu16.04 has bug in killing process group

This also affects an out of repository Hadoop install.

I found this issue but it did not solve the issue.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38419078/logouts-while-running-hadoop-under-ubuntu-16-04

Replacing /bin/kill with the binary from 14.04 LTS solved the issue for me. I am uncomfortable with the workaround, I will have to revert these systems to 14.04.