Test
com/sun/tracing/BasicFunctionality.java

fails (on Solaris) with
java.lang.Exception: Factory.createProvider: Should error with non-void probes
        at BasicFunctionality.fail(BasicFunctionality.java:64)
        at BasicFunctionality.testProviderFactory(BasicFunctionality.java:81)
        at BasicFunctionality.main(BasicFunctionality.java:58)
        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:623)
        at com.sun.javatest.regtest.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:94)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:674)

Looks like invalid provider interface is not detected.
Here is the entry from my nightly analysis report:

New MISC_REGRESSION failures (from 2008.12.01)
* com/sun/tracing/BasicFunctionality.java
        This test failed due to "java.lang.Exception:
        Factory.createProvider: Should error with non-void probes" on
        Linux AMD64 Server VM (machine sfx2100-05), Linux IA32 Client
        VM (machine sfx2100-04), Linux IA32 Server VM (machine
        sfx2100-05), Solaris AMD64 Server VM (machine vm-v20z-10),
        Solaris X86 Client VM (machine vm-v20z-28), Solaris X86 Server
        VM (machine vm-v20z-8), Solaris SPARC Client VM (machine
        vm-b1600s-4), Solaris SPARC Server VM (machine vm-v100-01),
        Solaris SPARC-64 Server VM (machine sfsparc002), Win-AMD64
        Server VM (machine VM-X2200-02), Win32 Client VM (machine
        vm-x2200-01), and Win32 Server VM (machine reema).

        This test does not appear to have executed in the 2008.11.29
        nightly. Since there wasn't a JDK change, why is this test
        executing now?
With the promotion of JDK7-B78, it looks like we have another test
with the same failure mode:

    com/sun/tracing/BasicWithSecurityMgr.java

Here is a link to an example failure:

http://sqeweb.sfbay.sun.com/nfs/results/vm/gtee/JDK7/NIGHTLY/VM/2009-12-17/RT_Baseline/javase/linux-amd64/server/comp/linux-amd64_server_comp_MISC_REGRESSION/workDir/com/sun/tracing/BasicWithSecurityMgr.jtr

Here is a snippet of the .jtr file:

Dec 17, 2009 8:57:36 PM sun.tracing.NullProviderFactory createProvider
WARNING: Could not initialize tracing provider: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "accessDeclaredMembers")
Dec 17, 2009 8:57:39 PM sun.tracing.NullProviderFactory createProvider
WARNING: Could not initialize tracing provider: null
Dec 17, 2009 8:57:39 PM sun.tracing.NullProviderFactory createProvider
WARNING: Could not initialize tracing provider: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "accessDeclaredMembers")
java.lang.Exception: Factory.createProvider: Should error with non-void probes
at BasicWithSecurityMgr.fail(BasicWithSecurityMgr.java:67)
at BasicWithSecurityMgr.testProviderFactory(BasicWithSecurityMgr.java:84)
at BasicWithSecurityMgr.main(BasicWithSecurityMgr.java:61)
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:613)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:94)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:717)