--- /dev/null
+Patch kindly borrowed from Debian.
+Gentoo-bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/574746
+KDE-bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355324
+
+--- a/src/plugins/fits/non_linear.h
++++ b/src/plugins/fits/non_linear.h
+@@ -177,7 +177,9 @@ bool kstfit_nonlinear(
+ }
+ iIterations++;
+ } while( iStatus == GSL_CONTINUE && iIterations < MAX_NUM_ITERATIONS );
+- gsl_multifit_covar( pSolver->J, 0.0, pMatrixCovariance );
++ gsl_matrix *J = gsl_matrix_alloc (pSolver->fdf->n, pSolver->fdf->p);
++ gsl_multifit_fdfsolver_jac (pSolver, J);
++ gsl_multifit_covar (J, 0.0, pMatrixCovariance);
+
+ //
+ // determine the fitted values...
+--- a/src/plugins/fits/non_linear_weighted.h
++++ b/src/plugins/fits/non_linear_weighted.h
+@@ -193,7 +193,9 @@ bool kstfit_nonlinear_weighted(
+ }
+ while( iStatus == GSL_CONTINUE && iIterations < MAX_NUM_ITERATIONS );
+
+- gsl_multifit_covar( pSolver->J, 0.0, pMatrixCovariance );
++ gsl_matrix *J = gsl_matrix_alloc (pSolver->fdf->n, pSolver->fdf->p);
++ gsl_multifit_fdfsolver_jac (pSolver, J);
++ gsl_multifit_covar (J, 0.0, pMatrixCovariance);
+
+ //
+ // determine the fitted values...