diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/InstUtils.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/InstUtils.pm
index 5ba19bd1e..e55a14741 100644
--- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/InstUtils.pm
+++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/InstUtils.pm
@@ -894,6 +894,34 @@ sub dolitesetup
         return 1;
     }
 
+	#
+	#  Check the statelite table for duplicate node entries
+	#
+	my $recs=$statelitetab->getAllEntries();
+	my @SLnodes;
+	foreach my $entry (@$recs) {
+
+		# get the "node" value
+        my $node = $entry->{node};
+
+		# run it through noderange
+		my @newnodes = xCAT::NodeRange::noderange($node);
+
+		# for each node - see if it's already in the list
+		foreach my $n (@newnodes) {
+			if (!grep (/^$n$/, @SLnodes) ) {
+				push(@SLnodes, $n);
+			} else {
+				# if it's already in the list then this is an error
+				my $rsp;
+				push @{$rsp->{data}}, "The node \'$n\' is included in multiple statelite entries.\n";
+				xCAT::MsgUtils->message("E", $rsp, $callback);
+				return 1;
+			}
+		}
+ 	}
+
+	# create the statelite table file
 	my $stateHash = $statelitetab->getNodesAttribs(\@nodelist, ['statemnt']);
 	foreach my $node (@nodelist) {
 
@@ -945,6 +973,7 @@ sub dolitesetup
     }
 
 	my @filelist = xCAT::Utils->runcmd("/opt/xcat/bin/litefile $noderange", -1);
+
 	foreach my $l (@filelist) {
 		$l =~ s/://g;  # remove ":"'s
 		$l =~ s/\s+/|/g;  # change separator to "|"