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Problem description:

You are trying to recursively delete an ASM folder in asmcmd on 12.1.0.1 and are receiving the following ORA-00600:

ASMCMD> rm -rf 2013_12_10
ORA-29261: bad argument
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ORA_NPI_ERROR], [600], [ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [KFCHK_ERRRET], [kfa.c], [3025], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-06512: at line 4 (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)
ASMCMD>

 
Problem resolution:

This seems to be a currently unresolved issue in 12.1.0.1. Even applying PSU1 will not fix this issue. Currently it is only possible to workaround this issue by not recursively deleting folders and instead delete the files inside:

ASMCMD> rm -f 2013_12_10/*
ASMCMD> ls -l
Type  Redund  Striped  Time             Sys  Name
                                        Y    2013_12_11/
                                        Y    2013_12_12/
                                        Y    2013_12_13/
ASMCMD>

 
System generated folders will be deleted automatically by Oracle ASM if no files are stored inside any longer.