This can happen with snaps that for example list an alias in their snap- declaration but they have dropped the corresponding application. I think openstackclients is in that situation for example.
If you look at tasks of the refresh you'll see something like: Refresh aliases for snap "..." and nothing else. I can't reproduce it anymore with google-cloud-skd though. We could add logic to snapd to avoid the spurious task but there is some extra complexity that would come with that. ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1909727 Title: snap always says refreshing: google-cloud-sdk To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1909727/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs