I have created a Accumulo1.6 + Geomesa(accumulo1.6 branch) on CDH5.3.
The Quickstart program runs fine.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.joda.time.DateTime.<init>(IIIIIILorg/joda/time/DateTimeZone;)V
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.index.IndexSchema$.<init>(IndexSchema.scala:92)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.index.IndexSchema$.<clinit>(IndexSchema.scala)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.index.IndexSchemaBuilder.randomNumber(IndexSchema.scala:370)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.data.AccumuloDataStore.buildDefaultSpatioTemporalSchema(AccumuloDataStore.scala:100)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.data.AccumuloDataStore.computeSpatioTemporalSchema(AccumuloDataStore.scala:370)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.data.AccumuloDataStore.createSchema(AccumuloDataStore.scala:389)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.data.AccumuloDataStore.createSchema(AccumuloDataStore.scala:484)
at org.locationtech.geomesa.core.data.AccumuloDataStore.createSchema(AccumuloDataStore.scala:70)
at geomesa.gdelt.GDELTIngest.main(GDELTIngest.java:115)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)