The Mac Address Would Not Change on Debian, nor Gentoo

[grobbs]

I am fighting this right now. I tried to change the MAC address and then Pine64 would not boot
I tried erasing the line from uEnv.txt and it assigned the same one: 36:c9:e3:f1:b8:05.

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The board appears to be crashing (soft-lock):

[ OK ] Started Increase datagram queue length.
[ 13.682606] systemd[1]: Started Increase datagram queue length.
[ 13.895106] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[ 39.197658] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:30]
[ 39.209967] Modules linked in: cfg80211(+)
[ 39.219715]
[ 39.226370] CPU: 0 PID: 30 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 3.10.102-2-pine64-longsleep #66
[ 39.240276] Workqueue: events start_work
[ 39.249567] task: ffffffc039b56f80 ti: ffffffc039b58000 task.ti: ffffffc039b58000
[ 39.262840] PC is at __do_softirq+0xb4/0x2d8
[ 39.272563] LR is at __do_softirq+0x30/0x2d8
[ 39.282228] pc : [<ffffffc0000b5f78>] lr : [<ffffffc0000b5ef4>] pstate: 40000145
[ 39.295408] sp : ffffffc039b5b910

All I did was change the MAC address in uEnv.txt!