EC2 spark-shell failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection ref - amazon-web-services

Question

I have followed the instructions given on spark website (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html) to setup a simple ec2 cluster.
but when I start the spark-shell (./spark/bin/spark-shell) I get a connection refuse error.
I have added following environmental variables to master by logging in:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
Here is the stack trace:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.ConnectException: Call to ec2-XXX-XX-XX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com/XX.XXX.XX.XXX:9000 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:522)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.<init>(ClientWrapper.scala:194)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.IsolatedClientLoader.createClient(IsolatedClientLoader.scala:238)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.executionHive$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:218)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.executionHive(HiveContext.scala:208)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.functionRegistry$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:462)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.functionRegistry(HiveContext.scala:461)
at org.apache.spark.sql.UDFRegistration.<init>(UDFRegistration.scala:40)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext.<init>(SQLContext.scala:330)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:90)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:101)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.createSQLContext(SparkILoop.scala:1028)
at $iwC$$iwC.<init>(<console>:15)
at $iwC.<init>(<console>:24)
at <init>(<console>:26)
at .<init>(<console>:30)
at .<clinit>(<console>)
at .<init>(<console>:7)
at .<clinit>(<console>)
at $print(<console>)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$ReadEvalPrint.call(SparkIMain.scala:1065)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$Request.loadAndRun(SparkIMain.scala:1346)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.loadAndRunReq$1(SparkIMain.scala:840)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:871)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:819)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.reallyInterpret$1(SparkILoop.scala:857)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.interpretStartingWith(SparkILoop.scala:902)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.command(SparkILoop.scala:814)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$$anonfun$initializeSpark$1.apply(SparkILoopInit.scala:132)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$$anonfun$initializeSpark$1.apply(SparkILoopInit.scala:124)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.beQuietDuring(SparkIMain.scala:324)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$class.initializeSpark(SparkILoopInit.scala:124)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.initializeSpark(SparkILoop.scala:64)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1$$anonfun$apply$mcZ$sp$5.apply$mcV$sp(SparkILoop.scala:974)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$class.runThunks(SparkILoopInit.scala:159)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.runThunks(SparkILoop.scala:64)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$class.postInitialization(SparkILoopInit.scala:108)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.postInitialization(SparkILoop.scala:64)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply$mcZ$sp(SparkILoop.scala:991)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:945)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process$1.apply(SparkILoop.scala:945)
at scala.tools.nsc.util.ScalaClassLoader$.savingContextLoader(ScalaClassLoader.scala:135)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.org$apache$spark$repl$SparkILoop$$process(SparkILoop.scala:945)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.process(SparkILoop.scala:1059)
at org.apache.spark.repl.Main$.main(Main.scala:31)
at org.apache.spark.repl.Main.main(Main.scala)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:731)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:206)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:121)
at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Call to ec2-XXX-XX-XX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com/XX.XXX.XX.XXX:9000 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.wrapException(Client.java:1142)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1118)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:229)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy15.getProtocolVersion(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:62)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy15.getProtocolVersion(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.checkVersion(RPC.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.createNamenode(DFSClient.java:183)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:281)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:245)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:100)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:1446)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:67)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1464)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:263)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:124)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:505)
... 62 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:744)
at org.apache.hadoop.net.SocketIOWithTimeout.connect(SocketIOWithTimeout.java:206)
at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:511)
at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.connect(NetUtils.java:481)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupConnection(Client.java:457)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.setupIOstreams(Client.java:583)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.access$2200(Client.java:205)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getConnection(Client.java:1249)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1093)
In addition to that I get the following:
<console>:16: error: not found: value sqlContext
import sqlContext.implicits._
^
<console>:16: error: not found: value sqlContext
import sqlContext.sql
^
Could this be port related issue? Because;
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Call to ec2-XXX-XX-XX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com/XX.XXX.XX.161:9000 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Here its trying to connect to machine using port 9000 but when I log into webUI I see that its operating on port: 35073 I have no idea how this happens because I don't specify any ports when I start cluster using spark-ec2 scripts provided by the spark installation on my machine.