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SYS password has expired and cannot be changed due to ORA-00257: Archiver error

Your fundamental problem - the Archiver one - is that you've run out of disk space. The Archiver has a simple job - take an online Redo Log File that is full and write its contents to an Archived Redo ...
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SYS password has expired and cannot be changed due to ORA-00257: Archiver error

Connect SYS as SYSDBA: If you're already logged in to the database server OS you can login without a password, assuming you can run commands as the Oracle software owner and have the ORACLE_SID ...
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