Public bug reported:

- Start a VM with a network interface created by cloud-init (say ens3), and 
assume you have no physical console (e.g. cloud VM)
- Add another network interface (say ens7)
- Create another YAML file to configure ens7, but make a small error. This file 
need not reference ens3 at all! 
- Reboot machine

- Observe the following message on boot
systemd[332]: /lib/systemd/systemd-generators/netplan failed with error code 1.

- Observe that you can no longer SSH in to the machine because the error
in the new yaml file prevents all generation, so ens3 is not configured.

This is observed with the latest code on git. It renders the system
entirely unusable unless there is an alternative way to get in.

 1) An error in the configuration of device X should not stop device Y from 
being configured!
 2) Users should be instructed to always run netplan-generate to test for bugs. 
(Maybe a wrapper like visudo or crontab -e would be good?)

** Affects: nplan (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  No network devices configured if YAML error in any file

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