There is only one set of initial parameters construed for AffineRegistration. Hence this set has the form [ 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ] (identity matrix for rotation column-wise and zero offset ).
If some rigid transformation is selected, only the first 6 parameters are taken into account (since 6dof optimization). The initial rotation in x has the value 1 rad ( 57 deg ) which makes the registration problem 'ill-posed'.