Message output not visible on linux when the background is black

[moozzyk]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="14.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
    <Target Name="Build">
        <Message Text="********************ABVC" />
    </Target>
</Project>

When the background is black executing the Build target gives you:

Change the background color and messages magically appear:

Environment:

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.4 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

[moozzyk]

This can be workaround by using /consoleloggerparameters:DisableConsoleColor but it is not a long term solution. (credit goes to @anurse)

[analogrelay]

For clarity, the first message in that example ("MSBuild already initialized...") is actually from our (ASP.NET) own build scripts, so I'm fixing that one ;)

[Sarabeth-Jaffe-Microsoft]

We aren't familiar with KoreBuild. Can you reproduce this issue running MSBuild directly?

-MSBuild team

[analogrelay]

KoreBuild is just our (ASP.NET) scripts to download and launch MSBuild Core. The below messages come directly from MSBuild. There is a message in the red box that is written by the "Message" task with normal importance and it is written with "DarkGray" console color that ends up as the ANSI color code for Black, which is the same as the background on most consoles:

The messages above this referring to KoreBuild are issues in our own scripts, which did exactly the same thing until I fixed them :)

[colemickens]

Yup. This happens with raw dotnet build in the docker.io/microsoft/dotnet:1.1.0-sdk-msbuild image.

[livarcocc]

Can someone provide a repro for this issue? I can't seem to reproduce it normally.