I’ve given up on using the cog wheel update widget, other than to update any non-fedora 32 VM’s. It seems to be a never ending battle of it works, it doesn’t work, etc. For fedora 32 updates I just use the
Qube Manager program, start up the fedora 32 based templates and then update them with the blue down arrow update button. When Qubes 4.1 is released, I will install from scratch and see if the update cog wheel method works. Other problems as well, which I’m hoping a new install of 4.1 will fix.