Recover an Innodb mysql database from an EBS on Ec2
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.


The MySQL server is refusing to start, so it's not running, and you're not going to be able to connect with the mysql command line utility until it is... but you don't need it running to fix the permissions.

The permissions you need to fix are filesystem permissions, with some variant of this: 

$ sudo chmod -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql
$ sudo chmod -R mysql:mysql /var/log/mysql


(Don't copy/paste this unless you are clear on what it does.)

After that, you should be able to start the server if the files are intact and the paths were correct.  

Also, I'm not sure where you found the steps you originally used, but I assume the purpose of this exercise is to get the server running again so you can make a backup, after which you'll stop it and unmount those "bind" mounts.