@Andrew Thank you Andrew... sorry it took me a while to get back to you. It seems every time I have to go and update Node they change the method you need to do so and it takes me forever to figure out what I'm supposed to do.
I still haven't figured that out, but that's on me. However, restarting the toolstack did not fix the issue, but restarting the XO Ubuntu host server did.
I've not seen anything like that before, where I've had to reboot the entire host server after applying commits... but if it works, I shall not argue!
Thank you again for all of your help. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a fantastic holiday season.