Laser_scan_matcher can't find base_link

edit

Greetings. I am using the following launch file to get odometry from laser_scan_matcher so I can use it with amcl:

    <launch>
    <node name="map_server" pkg="map_server" type="map_server" args="/home/skel/test.yaml" output="screen"/>
    <node pkg="hokuyo_transformer" type="laser_to_pcl" name="laser_to_pcl"/>
    <node name="hokuyo" pkg="hokuyo_node" type="hokuyo_node" required="true" output="screen" >
        <param name="frame_id" type="str" value="laser"/> 
        <param name="port" type="string" value="/dev/ttyACM0"/> 
        <param name="intensity" type="bool" value="false"/>
    </node>

  <node pkg="laser_scan_matcher" type="laser_scan_matcher_node" name="laser_scan_matcher_node" output="screen">
    <param name="fixed_frame" value = "odom"/>
    <param name="base_frame" value="base_link"/>
    <param name="use_alpha_beta" value="true"/>
    <param name="use_odom" value="false"/>
    <param name="use_imu" value="false"/>
    <param name="max_iterations" value="10"/>
  </node>
  <node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="base_link_to_laser" args="0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 /base_link /laser 40" />
</launch>

But when I run the file I get the following message :

[ WARN] [1381839319.059787240]: Skipping scan [ WARN] [1381839320.066850260]: Could not get initial transform from base to laser frame, "base_link" passed to lookupTransform argument target_frame does not exist.

However the transform is happenning and is being published since rosrun tf tf_echo /base_link /laser outputs

At time 1381839581.581
- Translation: [0.000, 0.000, 0.000]
- Rotation: in Quaternion [0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 1.000]
            in RPY [0.000, -0.000, 0.000]

Any idea on what is the matter ? I am currently using ROS Hydro on Ubuntu 12.04