The backtraces are different, so the sites of failures are different, but the cause appears to be the same.

On 5 May 2023 at 11:49 AM +0100, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, wrote:

From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 11:35:48 +0100

Commit dd21003 broke package activation in that package-activate-1 still
assumes every package will produce an autoload file, whether it's empty
or not. This prevents packages that have no autoloads such as
pager-default-keybindings from being installed.

Is this a duplicate of bug#63260?