Is a value for MXREF_MX_PRIVILEGE restricted to be numeric?

Hi expert.
AS ABAP Initial Load job has failed with Error bellow
===
putNextEntry failed storingY.NAKAMURA
Exception from Modify operation:com.sap.idm.ic.ToPassException: ToIDStore.modEntry failed modifying entry 'Y.NAKAMURA'. IDStore returned error message: " Entry reference value is not numeric:Attribute: MXREF_MX_PRIVILEGE" when storing attribute 'MXREF_MX_PRIVILEGE=<PRIV:PROFILE:Centaurus:SAP_ALL>'
===
The message seems to say that a value for MXREF_MX_PREVILEGE corresponds to MSKEY,
however the value set by this job is MSKEYVALUE.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards.

Thank you Christian.
An answer for your first question is Yes.
Table sapCentaurusprofile has 1053 profile entries.(Centaurus is ERP Repsitory name)
And I have not changed any pass since I created a job 'AS ABAP - Initial Load',
so proberbly entry type and other parameters are correct .
For reference's sake, disabling delta checkbox of WriteABAPProfilePrivileges's delta pass ,profiles were loaded and could be found in ID's privilege menu.
(Excuting reset delta job or not makes no differences to result.)
Then the job went through with no errors, and assignments was set correctly.
The problems at the moment are
1. WriteABAPProfilePrivileges ended with no errors. but with delta enabled, why privileges can't find in IDS
(Only one IDS is defined in Identity Store).
2. All passes completely ending, but privileges which come from 'ABAP Roles' is not assigned to users.
I think these questions get off the subject.
So I'll make new thread.
The problem of title is resolved because of advices of you.
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