Kite tools tarball fails when loading LocalJobRunner

blue@work:~/tmp$ kite-dataset json-import movies.json dataset:file:data/movies_avro/
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -javaagent:/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar 
Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.VerifyError: Bad return type
Exception Details:
  Location:
    org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalJobRunner.submitJob(Lorg/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobID;Ljava/lang/String;Lorg/apache/hadoop/security/Credentials;)Lorg/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobStatus; @29: areturn
  Reason:
    Type 'org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobStatus' (current frame, stack[0]) is not assignable to 'org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobStatus' (from method signature)
  Current Frame:
    bci: @29
    flags: { }
    locals: { 'org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalJobRunner', 'org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobID', 'java/lang/String', 'org/apache/hadoop/security/Credentials', 'org/apache/hadoop/mapred/LocalJobRunner$Job' }
    stack: { 'org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobStatus' }
  Bytecode:
    0000000: bb00 2259 2a2b b800 232c b700 243a 0419
    0000010: 04b8 0025 2db6 0026 1904 b800 27b0     

        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.init(JobClient.java:548)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.<init>(JobClient.java:520)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$1.run(Job.java:595)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.connect(Job.java:593)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:581)
        at org.apache.crunch.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.jobcontrol.CrunchControlledJob.submit(CrunchControlledJob.java:329)
        at org.apache.crunch.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.jobcontrol.CrunchJobControl.startReadyJobs(CrunchJobControl.java:204)
        at org.apache.crunch.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.jobcontrol.CrunchJobControl.pollJobStatusAndStartNewOnes(CrunchJobControl.java:238)
        at org.apache.crunch.impl.mr.exec.MRExecutor.monitorLoop(MRExecutor.java:112)
        at org.apache.crunch.impl.mr.exec.MRExecutor.access$000(MRExecutor.java:55)
        at org.apache.crunch.impl.mr.exec.MRExecutor$1.run(MRExecutor.java:83)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Unknown error: null
2015-06-25 15:13:33 PDT