OpenMRS installation wizard gives an error that "User account openmrs_user does not work"

On initial setup, the wizard tool gives an error.

Full error text:
User account openmrs_user does not work. Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up. See the error log for more details.

It also shows:

Tasks completed so far:

• Created database openmrs
• Created user openmrs_user
• Granted user openmrs_user all privileges to database openmrs

Tomcat error:
WARN - InitializationFilter.verifyConnection(574) |2009-02-14 13:07:13,515| Erro
r while checking the connection user account
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not
create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstruct
orAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingC
onstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:381)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:984)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:956)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:926)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2270)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:723)
at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:46)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstruct
orAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingC
onstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:302)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java
:282)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
at org.openmrs.web.filter.initialization.InitializationFilter.verifyConn
ection(InitializationFilter.java:567)
at org.openmrs.web.filter.initialization.InitializationFilter.doPost(Ini
tializationFilter.java:447)
at org.openmrs.web.filter.initialization.InitializationFilter.doFilter(I
nitializationFilter.java:149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Appl
icationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationF
ilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperV
alve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextV
alve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.j
ava:128)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:109)
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