joshua keroes

…just bad news.

/var/log/system.log boot snippet [formatted for brevity]. Note the times:

May 22 16:40:41 popkin configd[56]: setting hostname to "popkin.eli.net"
May 22 16:40:50 popkin configd[56]: target=enable-network: disabled
May 22 16:51:07 popkin kernel[0]: ATY,RockHopper2_A: vram [9c000000:02000000]
May 22 16:51:08 popkin /System/.../loginwindow: Login Window Application Started

See that 10+ minute pause? Appears to be either network or vram-related. Since the bug is reproducible both with and without the network cable connected, it’s not the network. Plugging the machine into an ancient Tektronix monitor resolved the lengthy startup.

This is a 1.25GHz MacMini with a fresh install of OSX 10.4.6 on a brand new harddrive. The Viewsonic monitor is a 15″ or 17″ Viewsonic G773, model number VCDTS21543-3M. The only items plugged in are an Apple keyboard and a Microsoft wireless optical mouse.

Bug submitted to BugReport.apple.com.

Mom went in to the clinic yesterday to have a blackberry-sized cyst removed from behind her eye. The doctors had six hours blocked out for the operation but needed only two to get through it; always a good sign.

We went down an hour later to find Mom in the post-op recovery room where two patients reclined on portable beds and a bevy of nurses ran around taking care of everyone. Mom was groggy and had a huge headache. The nurses were giving her plenty of codeine for the headache. Right eye had bruising and was swelled shut. She was otherwise doing well.

Today we headed over around noon to find her chipper and awake. Below you’ll find a picture form this visit, looking beautiful as always. Left her with my iPod and some headphones to drone out the recovery room’s noise.

It’s 5pm now, she was just moved into her own private room, where she’ll finally be able to get some well-deserved sleep. Nurses believe she’ll stay in that room through the weekend; four more days at least.