diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/11467 b/changelog/unreleased/11467
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8b4dcb97a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/11467
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Bugfix: Client stuck in `reconnecting`
+
+Properly handle errors during the update of the server settings.
+Due to an unhandled result, the client could get stuck in a ` reconnecting` state.
+
+https://github.com/owncloud/client/pull/11467
diff --git a/src/gui/connectionvalidator.cpp b/src/gui/connectionvalidator.cpp
index 610e2fb5363..9468f2ad0f5 100644
--- a/src/gui/connectionvalidator.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/connectionvalidator.cpp
@@ -238,13 +238,30 @@ void ConnectionValidator::slotAuthSuccess()
         const auto unsupportedServerError = [this] {
             _errors.append({tr("The configured server for this client is too old."), tr("Please update to the latest server and restart the client.")});
         };
-        connect(fetchSetting, &FetchServerSettingsJob::unknownServerDetected, unsupportedServerError);
-        connect(fetchSetting, &FetchServerSettingsJob::unsupportedServerDetected, [unsupportedServerError, this] {
-            unsupportedServerError();
-            reportResult(ServerVersionMismatch);
-        });
-
-        connect(fetchSetting, &FetchServerSettingsJob::finishedSignal, this, [this] { reportResult(Connected); });
+        connect(
+            fetchSetting, &FetchServerSettingsJob::finishedSignal, this, [fetchSetting, unsupportedServerError, this](FetchServerSettingsJob::Result result) {
+                switch (result) {
+                case FetchServerSettingsJob::Result::UnsupportedServer:
+                    unsupportedServerError();
+                    reportResult(ServerVersionMismatch);
+                    break;
+                case FetchServerSettingsJob::Result::InvalidCredentials:
+                    reportResult(CredentialsWrong);
+                    break;
+                case FetchServerSettingsJob::Result::TimeOut:
+                    reportResult(Timeout);
+                    break;
+                case FetchServerSettingsJob::Result::Success:
+                    if (_account->serverSupportLevel() == Account::ServerSupportLevel::Unknown) {
+                        unsupportedServerError();
+                    }
+                    reportResult(Connected);
+                    break;
+                case FetchServerSettingsJob::Result::Undefined:
+                    reportResult(Undefined);
+                    break;
+                }
+            });
 
         fetchSetting->start();
         return;
diff --git a/src/gui/fetchserversettings.cpp b/src/gui/fetchserversettings.cpp
index 656cdc57167..b7daa465f87 100644
--- a/src/gui/fetchserversettings.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/fetchserversettings.cpp
@@ -57,11 +57,25 @@ void FetchServerSettingsJob::start()
                 _account->setHttp2Supported(reply->attribute(QNetworkRequest::Http2WasUsedAttribute).toBool());
             }
             _account->setCapabilities({_account->url(), caps.toVariantMap()});
-            if (checkServerInfo()) {
-                auto *userJob = new JsonApiJob(_account, QStringLiteral("ocs/v2.php/cloud/user"), SimpleNetworkJob::UrlQuery{}, QNetworkRequest{}, this);
-                userJob->setAuthenticationJob(isAuthJob());
-                userJob->setTimeout(timeoutC);
-                connect(userJob, &JsonApiJob::finishedSignal, this, [userJob, this] {
+            // We cannot deal with servers < 10.0.0
+            switch (_account->serverSupportLevel()) {
+            case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Unknown:
+                [[fallthrough]];
+            case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Supported:
+                break;
+            case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Unsupported:
+                Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::UnsupportedServer);
+                return;
+            }
+            auto *userJob = new JsonApiJob(_account, QStringLiteral("ocs/v2.php/cloud/user"), SimpleNetworkJob::UrlQuery{}, QNetworkRequest{}, this);
+            userJob->setAuthenticationJob(isAuthJob());
+            userJob->setTimeout(timeoutC);
+            connect(userJob, &JsonApiJob::finishedSignal, this, [userJob, this] {
+                if (userJob->timedOut()) {
+                    Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::TimeOut);
+                } else if (userJob->httpStatusCode() == 401) {
+                    Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::InvalidCredentials);
+                } else if (userJob->ocsSuccess()) {
                     const auto userData = userJob->data().value(QStringLiteral("ocs")).toObject().value(QStringLiteral("data")).toObject();
                     const QString user = userData.value(QStringLiteral("id")).toString();
                     if (!user.isEmpty()) {
@@ -72,9 +86,19 @@ void FetchServerSettingsJob::start()
                         _account->setDavDisplayName(displayName);
                     }
                     runAsyncUpdates();
-                    Q_EMIT finishedSignal();
-                });
-                userJob->start();
+                    Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::Success);
+                } else {
+                    Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::Undefined);
+                }
+            });
+            userJob->start();
+        } else {
+            if (job->timedOut()) {
+                Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::TimeOut);
+            } else if (job->httpStatusCode() == 401) {
+                Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::InvalidCredentials);
+            } else {
+                Q_EMIT finishedSignal(Result::Undefined);
             }
         }
     });
@@ -103,21 +127,6 @@ void FetchServerSettingsJob::runAsyncUpdates()
         jsonJob->start();
     }
 }
-bool FetchServerSettingsJob::checkServerInfo()
-{
-    // We cannot deal with servers < 10.0.0
-    switch (_account->serverSupportLevel()) {
-    case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Supported:
-        break;
-    case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Unknown:
-        Q_EMIT unknownServerDetected();
-        break;
-    case Account::ServerSupportLevel::Unsupported:
-        Q_EMIT unsupportedServerDetected();
-        return false;
-    }
-    return true;
-}
 
 bool FetchServerSettingsJob::isAuthJob() const
 {
diff --git a/src/gui/fetchserversettings.h b/src/gui/fetchserversettings.h
index 6b664498dbe..672dbc30f5f 100644
--- a/src/gui/fetchserversettings.h
+++ b/src/gui/fetchserversettings.h
@@ -25,32 +25,21 @@ class FetchServerSettingsJob : public QObject
 {
     Q_OBJECT
 public:
+    enum class Result { Success, TimeOut, InvalidCredentials, UnsupportedServer, Undefined };
+    Q_ENUM(Result);
     FetchServerSettingsJob(const AccountPtr &account, QObject *parent);
 
     void start();
 
 Q_SIGNALS:
-    /***
-     * The version of the server is unsupported
-     */
-    void unsupportedServerDetected();
-
-    /***
-     * We failed to detect the server version
-     */
-    void unknownServerDetected();
-
-    void finishedSignal();
+    void finishedSignal(Result);
 
 private:
     void runAsyncUpdates();
 
-    bool checkServerInfo();
-
     // returns whether the started jobs should be excluded from the retry queue
     bool isAuthJob() const;
 
-
     const AccountPtr _account;
 };