hiveserver2 gives no response on port 10000 - apache

Question

Does apache hive have a contact place where I can ask them questions? I've tried everything I could but it still does not work.
I setup hadoop then hive based on the tutorial
http://doctuts.readthedocs.org/en/latest/hive.html
Then I tried to run hiveserver2 and wrote a python script to interact with it but it would hang when I tried to execute a hive command. However, based on the solution here Requests hang when using Hiveserver2 Thrift Java client
Now when I start hiveserver I still get errors.
Using the hive_service library I get the error
Invalid method name: 'execute'
when I call client.execute
and when I try to use pyhs2 I get this output
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 8, in <module>
database='default') as conn:
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyhs2/__init__.py", line 7, in connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyhs2/connections.py", line 46, in __init__
transport.open()
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyhs2/cloudera/thrift_sasl.py", line 74, in open
status, payload = self._recv_sasl_message()
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyhs2/cloudera/thrift_sasl.py", line 92, in _recv_sasl_message
header = self._trans.readAll(5)
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thrift/transport/TTransport.py", line 58, in readAll
chunk = self.read(sz-have)
File "/home/sakib/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thrift/transport/TSocket.py", line 94, in read
raise TTransportException('TSocket read 0 bytes')
thrift.transport.TTransport.TTransportException: None
Here is my sample python scripts to connect with hive
import sys
from hive_service import ThriftHive
from hive_service.ttypes import HiveServerException
from thrift import Thrift
from thrift.transport import TSocket
from thrift.transport import TTransport
from thrift.protocol import TBinaryProtocol
try:
print "1111"
transport = TSocket.TSocket('localhost', 10000)
transport = TTransport.TBufferedTransport(transport)
protocol = TBinaryProtocol.TBinaryProtocol(transport)
print "2222"
client = ThriftHive.Client(protocol)
transport.open()
print "3333"
client.execute("CREATE TABLE r(a STRING, b INT, c DOUBLE)")
print "4444"
transport.close()
except Thrift.TException, tx:
print '%s' % (tx.message)
and
import pyhs2
with pyhs2.connect(host='localhost',
port=10000,
authMechanism="PLAIN",
user='root',
password='',
database='default') as conn:
with conn.cursor() as cur:
#Show databases
print cur.getDatabases()