PermissionsEX NOT WORKING

Okay, so when I go in game permissions ex works. But when I add my old permissions through config and go back in-game it stops working and turns red.

SERVER JAR: spigot_1649

NO ERRORS:

04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: [Vault][Permission] PermissionsEx hooked.
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: WEPIF: Using the Bukkit Permissions API.
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: WEPIF: Using the Bukkit Permissions API.
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: [PermissionsEx] Disabling PermissionsEx v1.22.7
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: [PermissionsEx] Permissions file successfully reloaded
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: [PermissionsEx] Initializing file backend
04.03 22:05:58 [Server] INFO [22:05:58 INFO]: [PermissionsEx] Enabling PermissionsEx v1.22.7

PLEASE HELP ME!

 

@Bullfrog_ Post your code.

 

Um what?