diff --git a/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.odt b/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.odt
index 26abebe36..7faf0441d 100644
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diff --git a/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.pdf b/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.pdf
index 2eb630ccb..b2b47862d 100644
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diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
index 0abbad38d..aaffda33f 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
@@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 		| awk '{print $2}' \
 		> $SYNCTREE
 
+    RETCODE=$?
+
     RETRY=0
-    while [ ! -s $SYNCTREE ]; do
+    while [ ! -s $SYNCTREE ] && [ "$RETCODE" -ne "0" ] ; do
         # the file is empty, we should retry several times
         RETRY=$(( $RETRY + 1 ))
         if [ $RETRY -eq $MAX_RETRIES ]; then
@@ -140,6 +142,7 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 		| awk '{print $2}' \
 		> $SYNCTREE
 
+        RETCODE=$?
     done
 }
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite.ppc.redhat b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite.ppc.redhat
index c2ef315f7..d49cfcca8 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite.ppc.redhat
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite.ppc.redhat
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # get all the database files.
 #set -x
 SL=".statelite"
-ME=`hostname -s`
+ME=`hostname`
 MNTDIR="/sysroot"
 SYNCTREE="${MNTDIR}/$SL/litetree" 	# the list of directories to sync from
 SYNCLIST="${MNTDIR}/$SL/litefile" 	# the list of files to sync
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 		fi
 	done
 
-    hn=`hostname -s`
+    hn=`hostname`
 	
 
 	if [ -z $XCATSERVER ]; then
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 	fi
 
     # add one random sleeping time
-    SLI=$(( $RANDOM%30 ))
-    SLI=$(( $SLI + 20 ))
+    SLI=$(( $RANDOM%50 ))
     sleep $SLI
 	# request the list of files from xCAT:
 	xCATCmd $XCATSERVER litefile  \
@@ -109,8 +108,10 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 		| awk '{print $2}' \
 		> $SYNCTREE
 
+    RETCODE=$?
+
     RETRY=0
-    while [ ! -s $SYNCTREE ]; do
+    while [ ! -s $SYNCTREE ] && [ "$RETCODE" -ne "0" ]; do
         # the file is empty, we should retry several times
         RETRY=$(( $RETRY + 1 ))
         if [ $RETRY -eq $MAX_RETRIES ]; then
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
             /bin/bash
         fi
 
-        SLI=$(( $RAMDOM % 50 ))
+        SLI=$(( $RANDOM%50 ))
         sleep $SLI
     	xCATCmd $XCATSERVER litetree  \
 		| sed  -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' \
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ GetSyncInfo () {
 		| awk '{print $2}' \
 		> $SYNCTREE
 
+        RETCODE=$?
     done
 }