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)
I fixed this issue by modifying the /usr/local/lib/meteor file.
Adding "export LC_ALL=C LANG=C" to this bash script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export LC_ALL=C LANG=C
BUNDLE_VERSION=0.5.16