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And, one last update (my edit window has passed, sorry):

"Pods 1 and 4 now online and thrusters engaged. Dragon transitioned from free drift to active control. Yes!!" https://twitter.com/elonmusk

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A number of sources are now reporting that all 4 thruster pods are now online.

Looks like this may have been nothing more than a hiccup.

They do need to wait for the Dragon (and ISS) to travel a bit in their respective orbit until another opportunity comes up for rendevouz. Theres some concern that the Dragon might get too low and reenter, so they will probably have to expend fuel to stop that from happening.

Sounds like they have now successfully raised the orbit. Rendezvous is still delayed I imagine.

My understanding is that NASA gets final say, and that needs to happen about 24 hours ahead of time. I believe tomorrow afternoon NASA will make that decision, and then Dragon will go into an orbit that will intersect with ISS's.

I'm very happy. Not as happy as if there were no hiccough (SpaceX has some big enemies and they will be harping on this with the FUD), but things are playing out nicely.

Yeah. On the bright side, it is nice to see that they are able to react to unanticipated problems rapidly and effectively.

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