Your Part B (and remove your state) worked for me.
I could not efile my CA form because my CA form did not correctly link to the Fed 1040. I had to manually enter key data like my name and SSAN. Calif will not accept manual entries to their form... the key data must flow from the 1040. So one needs to eliminate and redo CA. Not a big effort:
You need to recreate the link between the Fed 1040 and CA by reloading the state.
1. To do so, In the Menu Bar, go to File>>Remove Data>> California. (note: You may be prompted to take your CA form out of efile status first, and set it up for Mailing (but stop short of the printing for the mailing)).
2. Due to past history with faulty SW, I quit TT, then re-opened the file.
3. I then went back to State Taxes (in EZ Mode) an re-selected CA. All the key data flowed. Though on Smart Check some minor boxes needed editing, the key data did not, and I was able to go back and efile the form
