This is noticed while working on 6994933.
The code awt_Desktop.c:

int init(){
    void *vfs_handle;
    void *gnome_handle;
    const char *errmsg;
>>>dlerror() won't be null here.
    vfs_handle = dlopen("libgnomevfs-2.so.0", RTLD_LAZY);
    if (vfs_handle == NULL) {
#ifdef INTERNAL_BUILD

The error message is as follows:
"some error occured: ld.so.1: java: fatal: Java_sun_awt_X11_XDesktopPeer_init: can't find symbol"
This only happens on solaris.
That's a symptom of some wrong initialization/order and requires evaluation.