RunOnSpark sanity check queries fail with file access exception - Aster Analytics

Problem: RunOnSpark sanity check queries fail with:

SQL-MR function RUNONSPARK failed: File access exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /user/sparkJobSubmitter/tmp/3246430564852205411/AsterOutput/file3.txt could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 3 datanode(s) running and 3 node(s) are excluded in this operation.

The call stack is:

ERROR: SQL-MR function RUNONSPARK failed: File access exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /user/sparkJobSubmitter/tmp/7924058072496582187/AsterOutput/file3.txt could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 3 datanode(s) running and 3 node(s) are excluded in this operation.
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:3286)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.addBlock(NameNodeRpcServer.java:676)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.addBlock(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:212)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:483)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1060)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2086)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2082)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1671)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2080)