MDSModelDeploy Operation Failed, clone cannot be deployed, The Attribute Value is not valid

Question

I've created a model containing a customer entity with various domain based attributes.  I've populated the entities via a combination of manual entry and the staging tables.  In the source system I have approx 950 customer records, all of which
fail validation on the source system as some of the attributes will be maintained only in MDS and are not in the source systems I'm pulling the initial data from.
I ran the MDSModelDeploy.exe to create a package containing data on the source system.  I then ran the package to apply the package using the -deployclone option on my target system.  I piped the output into a flat file for review.
Here is the error I'm receiving.
MDSModelDeploy operation failed. Elapsed time: 00:01:00.2314612
Error:
A clone of the "Subzero_1" model cannot be deployed.
An error occurred while processing message request type 'EntityMembersMergeRequest'. See exception details for more information.
Package deployment failed with 344 errors
The attribute value is not valid.
The attribute value is not valid.   (repeated 344 times)
Any ideas what the issue might be?  I have tried verbose logging as well and did not find anything that would point me in the direction of the problem.  The end result was that the model was not deployed to the target.
I have also created a package without data, deployed that, then applied the data.  This gets the model to the target and the data also appears to be there but I did receive this error on the deployupdate.
This is on SQL Server 2012.

Answer 1

I am seeing the same error. Created a model, Cloned the model. Made changes to the clone (Schema and Data), and used MDSModelDeploy UpdateModel to update the primary (not cloned) model.  In looking at the log, I see the error shown below, but I do not
see anything that points to what was happening at the time.
I tried running a SQL trace to see if one of the SQL commands received an error, but none of the commands did.
In looking at the model that was updated, I can see all of the schema changes were made, and most of the data was updated. There is one table that did not update completely. The attributes in the table consist of Domain Specific and text attributes only. 
I also verified that everything on both models was validated before starting.
In the weblog I see the error listed below, but there is nothing in the data that would match that value 
Not sure were to go from here....
Chad
--- MDSMODELDEPLOY ERROR RECEIVED ---
MDS Error: 0 : Microsoft.MasterDataServices.WebUI.ServiceAdapterObjectInvalidException: An error occurred while processing message request type 'EntityMembersMergeRequest'. See exception details for more information.
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.WebUI.ServiceAdapter.InspectResponseForErrors(MessageRequest request, MessageResponse response)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.WebUI.ServiceAdapter.ExecuteRequest[TRequestType,TResponseType](MdmServiceOperation`2 operation, TRequestType request)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.WebUI.ServiceAdapter.DoEntityMembersMerge(EntityMembers entityMembers)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Deployment.ModelDeployer.BatchEntityMembersMerge(Collection`1 masterData, Boolean membersOnly, Int32 batchSize, Int32 totalBatches, Collection`1 errors)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Deployment.ModelDeployer.UpdateData(Collection`1 masterData, Warnings errorsAsWarnings)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Deployment.ModelDeployer.DeployUpdate(Package package, Boolean includeData, Identifier targetVersionId)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Deployment.Utility.ModelDeploy.DeployUpdate(String serviceName, String packageFile, String versionName)
   at Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Deployment.Utility.ModelDeploy.Main(String[] args)
    DateTime=2014-02-06T16:03:17.8405277Z
-- WEB ERROR RECEIVED --
MDS Verbose: 0 : Unable to convert value of query string parameter Id = VID to an integer
    DateTime=2014-02-06T17:18:00.7367274Z