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)
work for me:
I moved the project to another directory, because I have Windows 8.1. I had the project in desktop directory, when change the project to C:\meteor\project
I stumbled on this issue when I first installed node and meteor in my new laptop (Windows 10). I did not made any changes in the default installations.
Meteor reset or removing files from .meteor/local/db did not work for me as I was creating new apps to run locally and the directory was empty. So, I could create them but they didn't run. Tried also to create apps with older meteor versions, failed also.
Solved in my case by changing directory to c:\
cd c:\
meteor create testApp
This directory worked also with preexisting apps that I transferred from my pc. I guess something to do with NFS filesytems, I am new in all this so if anyone can explain more about it I would love to learn more. It's already frustrating that I cannot use all possible directories to store my apps