diff --git a/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/UNIXToolkit.java b/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/UNIXToolkit.java
index 047bbec1937a64083aeabf003f1f163f9263c3c7..d385dc1b7816b0b195f971c006f2b920bbc72777 100644
--- a/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/UNIXToolkit.java
+++ b/src/solaris/classes/sun/awt/UNIXToolkit.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import java.awt.image.*;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import sun.security.action.GetIntegerAction;
 import com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKConstants.TextDirection;
-import sun.awt.X11.XToolkit;
 import sun.java2d.opengl.OGLRenderQueue;
 
 public abstract class UNIXToolkit extends SunToolkit
@@ -98,12 +97,7 @@ public abstract class UNIXToolkit extends SunToolkit
     public boolean loadGTK() {
         synchronized (GTK_LOCK) {
             if (nativeGTKLoaded == null) {
-                XToolkit.awtLock();
-                try {
-                    nativeGTKLoaded = load_gtk();
-                } finally {
-                    XToolkit.awtUnlock();
-                }
+                nativeGTKLoaded = load_gtk();
             }
         }
         return nativeGTKLoaded;
diff --git a/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/gtk2_interface.c b/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/gtk2_interface.c
index a9add84d3c3effaa1d40e38755b831fe923bec9e..1ba9beb625ad4d5de20aa2f00a41fb1fbc345476 100644
--- a/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/gtk2_interface.c
+++ b/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/gtk2_interface.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include "jvm_md.h"
 #include "sizecalc.h"
 #include <jni_util.h>
+#include "awt.h"
 
 #define GTK2_LIB_VERSIONED VERSIONED_JNI_LIB_NAME("gtk-x11-2.0", "0")
 #define GTK2_LIB JNI_LIB_NAME("gtk-x11-2.0")
@@ -890,6 +891,7 @@ gboolean gtk2_load(JNIEnv *env)
      * BadMatch errors which we would normally ignore. The IO error handler
      * is preserved here, too, just for consistency.
     */
+    AWT_LOCK();
     handler = XSetErrorHandler(NULL);
     io_handler = XSetIOErrorHandler(NULL);
 
@@ -926,6 +928,7 @@ gboolean gtk2_load(JNIEnv *env)
 
     XSetErrorHandler(handler);
     XSetIOErrorHandler(io_handler);
+    AWT_UNLOCK();
 
     /* Initialize widget array. */
     for (i = 0; i < _GTK_WIDGET_TYPE_SIZE; i++)