Following MP's houdini tutorial and when I use the SOP_Simple_Baker I get this error
I have tried reinstalling game development toolset.
Updating to both stable and development branches of it
Reinstalling houdini
Have installed mantra license.

Using Apprentice 16.5.439

Anyone know how to solve this issue? It is mesh independent and file independent - tested with different meshes and files.

Could you post a HIP file? (…assuming it's a file you made yourself, and not a private tutorial file.)

Other people would probably have a better idea than me, and having the file would help get an idea what's going on, but I'm going to take a completely wild guess that there's either no light or no camera in the scene and that it's the render node that's failing with an error message that Python isn't picking up.