Devcontainer logs are hard to read

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Since Jun 17, 2026.

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Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

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Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Start a devcontainer project, and ensure it stops with an error
  2. The container error shown is very hard to read, no newlines.
[4050 ms] Command failed: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) /Users/sanjar.afaq/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.459.1/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js up --user-data-folder /Users/sanjar.afaq/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers/data --container-session-data-folder /tmp/devcontainers-e76c6c20-d639-4326-8f76-c3f73033afe81781684256060 --workspace-folder /Users/sanjar.afaq/work/admin --workspace-mount-consistency cached --gpu-availability detect --id-label devcontainer.local_folder=/Users/sanjar.afaq/work/admin --id-label devcontainer.config_file=/Users/sanjar.afaq/work/admin/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json --log-level debug --log-format json --config /Users/sanjar.afaq/work/admin/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json --default-user-env-probe loginInteractiveShell --experimental-lockfile --mount type=volume,source=vscode,target=/vscode,external=true --skip-post-create --update-remote-user-uid-default on --mount-workspace-git-root --include-configuration --include-merged-configuration
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