diff --git a/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py b/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
index a6237889..a68aa996 100644
--- a/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
+++ b/taskflow/jobs/backends/impl_zookeeper.py
@@ -404,7 +404,6 @@ class ZookeeperJobBoard(base.NotifyingJobBoard):
                 # Skip lock paths or non-job-paths (these are not valid jobs)
                 continue
             child_paths.append(k_paths.join(self.path, c))
-
         # Figure out what we really should be investigating and what we
         # shouldn't (remove jobs that exist in our local version, but don't
         # exist in the children anymore) and accumulate all paths that we
@@ -569,14 +568,29 @@ class ZookeeperJobBoard(base.NotifyingJobBoard):
         entity_type = entity.kind
         if entity_type == c_base.Conductor.ENTITY_KIND:
             entity_path = k_paths.join(self.entity_path, entity_type)
-            self._client.ensure_path(entity_path)
-
-            conductor_name = entity.name
-            self._client.create(k_paths.join(entity_path,
-                                             conductor_name),
-                                value=misc.binary_encode(
-                                    jsonutils.dumps(entity.to_dict())),
-                                ephemeral=True)
+            try:
+                self._client.ensure_path(entity_path)
+                self._client.create(k_paths.join(entity_path, entity.name),
+                                    value=misc.binary_encode(
+                                        jsonutils.dumps(entity.to_dict())),
+                                    ephemeral=True)
+            except k_exceptions.NodeExistsError:
+                pass
+            except self._client.handler.timeout_exception:
+                excp.raise_with_cause(
+                    excp.JobFailure,
+                    "Can not register entity %s under %s, operation"
+                    " timed out" % (entity.name, entity_path))
+            except k_exceptions.SessionExpiredError:
+                excp.raise_with_cause(
+                    excp.JobFailure,
+                    "Can not register entity %s under %s, session"
+                    " expired" % (entity.name, entity_path))
+            except k_exceptions.KazooException:
+                excp.raise_with_cause(
+                    excp.JobFailure,
+                    "Can not register entity %s under %s, internal"
+                    " error" % (entity.name, entity_path))
         else:
             raise excp.NotImplementedError(
                 "Not implemented for other entity type '%s'" % entity_type)