Builds hangs when generating Azure Function project .Net Framework 4.6.2

[vijayrkn]

Creating the bug on behalf of the VS customer. The developer community ticket has more details:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Builds-hangs-when-generating-Azure-Funct/1570934

When the host process is terminated, it fails in the metadata generation error: 15>C:\Users\victo.nuget\packages\microsoft.azure.webjobs.script.extensionsmetadatagenerator\1.2.0\build\Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Script.ExtensionsMetadataGenerator.targets(37,5): error : Metadata generation failed. Exit code: '1' Error: '

[josemarfdc]

I have the exact same issue on Ubuntu 20.4

[scoobaroo]

Same issue VS2019 net462

[Maciejszuchta]

Same issue here VS2022, net48

[fowl2]

possibly related to https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/8401