Can't print any more: cups permissions (Solved)

[Subito Piano]

Gonna go nuts here....

All was well in FossaPup, then I let it set idle for a couple months, now I'm trying to get back to using my fav distro at work. The only things I recall installing are rednotebook and related packages, which shouldn't be a problem, i.e.,

• rednotebook_2.21+ds-1_all.deb

• python3-gi

• gir1.2-gtk3.0

• gir1.2-gtksource-3.0

• python3-yaml

Now when I try to print, I get the message

Idle - "Directory "/usr/lib/cups/filter" has insecure permissions (040555/uid=1000/gid=0)."

this for all printers including CUPS-PDF...!!!

I tried

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chmod -R 555 /usr/lib/cups/filter

as well as right-clicking on /usr/lib/cups/filter and setting permissions to a+x -- but when I open localhost:631 and click printers, the message remains.

Ugh....thoughts?

[Subito Piano]

So -- not solved per se, but no longer a problem. Thankfully, I checked to see if I'd made a backup, and I had. I added rednotebook and the printing works, so as I expected, that was not the cause of the problem.