Can not upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04

So I’m in the process of upgrading my Ubuntu machines (both local and through DO) from 22.04 to 24.04. The first point release is out (Sept 2024) and I’ve upgraded before. I specifically followed the instructions listed here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-22-04-lts-to-ubuntu-24-04-lts/. The upgrade process seems to work, however upon rebooting I can not ssh into the new installation or use the DO console. I’ve used the recovery ISO and chrooted into the installation however I’m not exactly sure where the error is. I’m guessing its a network issue however that’s really a guess. When things happen like this at home on VMs hosted within proxmox or xcp-ng, I’m able to obtain a console directly into the VM which really helps. The DO console seems to use a ssh connection, and if networking is down this ssh connection just doesn’t work. What’s the best strategy here to debug? I’ve rolled back to the last snapshot several times before performing the upgrade and I’m kind of stuck here on what to do. For networking I’m using a netplan config file with networkd as the renderer. I’m wondering if I should just write the systemd-network network files directly rather than depend on netplan (as I do within Arch), however I’m not quite sure this is going to fix things since I’m really missing some debug tools here.

Thanks for any suggestions.