After redoing the update which “failed” again in the sense that it black screened. I was getting the output of the above commands in the TTY terminal (alt+ctrl+F2), after I did that I decided to run sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 and rebooted. I finally got gnome to load up.
I guess the Nvidia driver failed.
I can post the logs of the above commands if anyone is interested.