Retirement tax questions

this is the message from tt today:

tt shows an amount as earned income from sched C.  In spite of tt bizarre objections, mentioned previously i had a contribution to roth entered.  roth + trad ira can't equal more than earned income.   so no earned income isn't the issue.  

then, shortly after, while working on state 1040, I get this:

Confused,  TT?