error message connection to MySQL. (Error Message :rlm_sql (sql): There are no DB handles to use! skipped 5, tried to connect 0)

[John Dennis]

You very helpfully deleted all the interesting information from the 
debug log (please always post the full log). But you can do this 
yourself. Take a look at sql initialization section and see what it's 
saying about initializing the sql driver, in this case it should be 
rlm_sql_mysql, that should answer most of your questions.

As to whether rlm_sql_mysql is in a different RPM, I can't help you as I 
don't know Debian packaging, but it's easy to tell if one of the RPM's 
you did install installed it, just looking in the freeradius library 
directory (which is defined at the top of the main freeradius config 
file (probably /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf)

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