PT-EUST...RESOLVER(1)

💅 pt-eustack-resolver — get stack traces & resolve symbols

okay so bestie, this page is PT-EUST...RESOLVER(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally the glow-up guide for a lil tool that grabs stack traces for a program using eu-stack and then resolves the symbols for you. iconic behavior honestly 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pt-eustack-resolver — get stack traces for a selected program with eu-stack and resolve symbols. that's the whole vibe 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Usage: pt-eustack-resolver PID

pt-eustack-resolver collects stack traces for the process with specified PID. yeah, you just hand it a PID and it does its thing ✨

💀 RISKS 💀

ngl, Percona Toolkit is mature, proven in the real world, and well tested — but like, all database tools can pose a risk to the system and the database server. so before you use this tool, please, for the love of everything:

• Read the tool's documentation 📖
• Review the tool's known BUGS 🐛
• Test the tool on a non-production server (do NOT rawdog this in prod 😭)
• Backup your production server and verify the backups 💾

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pt-eustack-resolver is the tool that gets stack traces for a selected program with eu-stack and resolves symbols. it's the companion tool for pt-pmp, called when option --dumper=pteu is specified. bestie duo energy fr fr 👑

eu-stack is a tool from the elfutils package (https://sourceware.org/elfutils) that prints a stack for each thread in a process or core file. and the way that eu-stack is faster than gdb and has smaller overhead on the diagnosed process? obsessed. 🔥

🌸 OUTPUT 🌸

Stack for each thread, formatted similarly to gdb thread apply all bt output. cute, readable, slay 💅

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

This tool accepts additional command-line arguments. Refer to the SYNOPSIS and usage information for details. iykyk 👀

• --help — Show help and exit. the classic escape hatch 🚪
• --version — Show version and exit. know your era 🏷️

🙈 ATTENTION 🙈

Using <PTDEBUG> might expose passwords. when debug is enabled, all command line parameters are shown in the output. so like… careful, bestie, that's a leak waiting to happen 💀

💜 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 💜

You need eu-stack from the elfutils package (https://sourceware.org/elfutils). no eu-stack, no stack traces, no slay. periodt ✨

🐛 BUGS 🐛

For a list of known bugs, see https://jira.percona.com/projects/PT/issues.

Please report bugs at https://jira.percona.com/projects/PT. Include the following information in your bug report:

• Complete command-line used to run the tool
• Tool --version
• MySQL version of all servers involved
• Output from the tool including STDERR
• Input files (log/dump/config files, etc.)

If possible, include debugging output by running the tool with PTDEBUG; see ENVIRONMENT. receipts help everyone 🫶

🌈 DOWNLOADING 🌈

Visit http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/ to download the latest release of Percona Toolkit. Or, get the latest release from the command line:

wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tar.gz

wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.rpm

wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb

You can also get individual tools from the latest release:

wget percona.com/get/TOOL

Replace TOOL with the name of any tool. mix and match, main character energy 👑

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Alexey Stroganov — thank you for your service 🫡

🍓 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 🍓

Part of code for symbol resolving derived from resolve-stack-traces.pl script (https://github.com/knielsen/knielsen-pmp). credit where credit is due, always 💖

👑 ABOUT PERCONA TOOLKIT 👑

This tool is part of Percona Toolkit, a collection of advanced command-line tools for MySQL developed by Percona. Percona Toolkit was forked from two projects in June, 2011: Maatkit and Aspersa. Those projects were created by Baron Schwartz and primarily developed by him and Daniel Nichter. Visit http://www.percona.com/software/ to learn about other free, open-source software from Percona. lore drop 📜

💅 COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, AND WARRANTY 💅

This program is copyright 2017-2026 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates.

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. (yes, in all caps, because that's the serious part 😤)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2; OR the Perl Artistic License. On UNIX and similar systems, you can issue man perlgpl or man perlartistic to read these licenses.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License, version 2 along with this program; if not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

🔥 VERSION 🔥

pt-eustack-resolver 3.7.1-4 ✨

😭 POD ERRORS 😭

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

Around line 1468:

You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'

not the doc dragging itself in public 💀 but we move.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-09-01, manual page PT-EUST...RESOLVER(1) — go forth and resolve those symbols 💖✨🦋