I have just installed Meteor version 0.5.9 (45fef52095) to my CentOS release 6.3 (Final) server (Linux version 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686 (mockbuild@c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org)
For those using bash on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux/WSL), I found that creating the meteor app outside of the /mnt directory solves the problem.
When I install it in my workspace in /mnt/c/Workspace it failed everytime. But, once I install it in the home directory (~), it runs the first time. Here's the image.