Server Administration :: Unable To Delete Archive Files Through ASMCMD

we are getting below error:

ora-00257 archiver error. connect internal only until freed

when we tried to remove the unwanted arc files thro ASMCMD,we are getting below error:

ASMCMD> rm -ef 2011_04_05/
Unknown option: e
usage: rm [-rf] <name1 name2 . . .>
ASMCMD> rm -rf 2011_04_05/
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15028: ASM file '+XCOM_BACKUP_DG/TXCOM/ARCHIVELOG/2011_04_05/thread_2_seq_27215.1143.747641143' not dropped; currently being accessed (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15028: ASM file '+XCOM_BACKUP_DG/TXCOM/ARCHIVELOG/2011_04_05/thread_3_seq_21762.826.747641143' not dropped; currently being accessed (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15177: cannot operate on system aliases (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)

further we checked FRA size:

SQL> select * from v$flash_recovery_area_usage;

FILE_TYPE PERCENT_SPACE_USED PERCENT_SPACE_RECLAIMABLE NUMBER_OF_FILES
------------ ------------------ ------------------------- ---------------

CONTROLFILE 0 0 0
ONLINELOG 0 0 0
ARCHIVELOG 3.19 0 38
BACKUPPIECE 0 0 0
IMAGECOPY 0 0 0
FLASHBACKLOG 0 0 0

and checked any arc processing holding lock on arc files:

> ps -ef | grep -i ora_arc*

oracle 6989 1 0 15:07 ? 00:00:00 ora_arc0_TXCOM1
oracle 6991 1 0 15:07 ? 00:00:00 ora_arc1_TXCOM1
oracle 12246 12164 0 15:17 pts/4 00:00:00 grep -i ora_arc*
oracle 13452 1 0 Mar23 ? 00:01:07 ora_arc0_TWEBAPPS1
oracle 13454 1 0 Mar23 ? 00:00:30 ora_arc1_TWEBAPPS1
oracle 15402 1 0 Mar23 ? 00:00:50 ora_arc0_SXCOM1

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but we were not able to remove those .arc files from that folder. finally we have down all the instances and deleted those files manually.